Outlander star Caitriona Balfe has landed her next movie role in A Long Winter, the latest film from All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh, which has rounded up a few big names for its cast.
Along Balfe, the film stars The Bear and Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Heartstopper’s Kit Connor, Gladiator II’s Fred Hechinger, Reservation Dogs’ D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Jurassic World: Rebirth’s Manuel Garcia Rulfo, and The Gilded Age’s David Furr.
Production is currently underway, with US streaming company Mubi and the UK’s Film4 collaborating to bring it to life.
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Based on the story by Colm Tóibín, the film focuses on a family who live in the mountains (rural Spain in the original work) who prepare for the long winter ahead.
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The story was first released as part of a collection called Mothers & Sons way back in 2006, but was recently reprinted on its own in September, tying in nicely with the film.
In a review of the collection from back in the day, The Stinging Fly wrote: “This collection shows Tóibín to be a master storyteller. He is especially adept at startling narrative turns that combine insight with unsettling ambiguity… the final passages of A Long Winter are also tremendously powerful.”
“The most striking example of Tóibín’s emotional control . . . [An] eloquent expression of the bond between a mother and a son,” wrote The Guardian, while Kirkus Reviews called it “a beautiful tale of filial grief, sexual hunger and hard-won acceptance of mutability and loss”.
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Meanwhile, Balfe’s film The Cut was recently released in the UK, while she filmed a new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility in the summer.
And then there’s Outlander itself. After a spread-out seventh season and prequel show Blood of My Blood, the 10-episode season 8 will wrap the show up in early 2026.
A Long Winter is currently filming, it does not currently have a release date.
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