To be honest, we’re not sure how to tell you about this one. We really can’t imagine how on earth it got the green-light, but somehow it did. Can you imagine the pitch?

“There’s this alien dude, right? And he crashlands on Earth, right? Only he lands in eighth century Scandinavia and somehow he speaks English as do all the Vikings, but anyway… Er, where was I? Oh yeah. So, what he doesn’t know, right, is that there’s this massive alien beastie that’s his mortal enemy - and it breathes fire and stuff - that’s landed too. It starts chomping all the Vikings before you can say ‘Ere, Olaf, what the heck’s that’ and our alien dude, who looks suspiciously like Jim Caviezel, he has to team up with them to kill it, right? Only there’s no laser cannons or anything because we thought we’d quite like to give the fella a chuffin’ great sword. So, whaddya think?”

And then someone said “sure thing, here’s a few million quid”.

So, er, yeah. Madness. Anyway, it’s called Outlander, it stars Jim Caviezel, John Hurt, Sophia Myles and Ron Perlman, and could well be the Greatest Thing Ever. Or the worst. Heck knows.

Click here to see the trailer and, no doubt, feel as bemused as we do.

Jim

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