Outlander is a 2008 science fiction film directed by Howard McCain and starring James Caviezel. Outlander is based on Beowulf according to the makers of the film.[3] A spacecraft crash lands in a large lake in Norway, circa 709 AD. From the wreckage emerges Kainan, a soldier and his deadly alien prisoner, a Moorwen. After Kainan buries his copilot, who was killed by the Moorwen during the crash, he recovers a portable computer from the spacecraft wreckage. He uses it to find he is on Earth (classified by his people as an "Abandoned Seed Colony") and there are no other interstellar vessels detected nearby.