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Ian Rankin\u2019s best-selling Inspector Rebus novels have been adapted for the small screen once before, with John Hannah first taking on the title character for ITV in the early 200s, before making way for Ken Stott.<\/p>\n
But we now have a second, with Outlander\u2019s<\/a> Richard Rankin<\/a> putting his own spin on the troubled Scottish detective in a reboot for the BBC<\/a>, in which we see Rebus in his younger years.<\/p>\n \u201cThe source material is so well-written, so wonderfully written by Ian Rankin,\u201d the actor told RadioTimes.com<\/a>. \u201cAnd then we\u2019ve got the screenwriting and it is so, so good from Greg Burke, I think he\u2019s an excellent writer, and I think his take on it is exciting.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that we have such a rich world to draw from, and Greg\u2019s from that world himself. He\u2019s coming to it with such experience, such honesty, such a story to tell, and he understands this world as a character, the political and social landscape of it all, he writes it, puts it in there, and gives it to us to take and put it on screen.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel very lucky to have had that. Those scripts and the source material that it came from, because it just really enriches it all and fills it with something substantial on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n