Outlander 6Outlander’s Tobias Menzies has signed up to star in AMC’s new anthology series The Terror.

He will play a member of the Royal Navy in the Scott Free show based on the book by Dan Simmons. The series is set in 1847, when a Royal Navy expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crews in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror given added currency with the news this week that HMS Terror has been found by researchers after 168 years.

The 10 episode series is set to air in 2017.

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