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| Terminator TV Series Going Forward Director chosen for The Sarah Connor Chronicles pilot. by Eric Goldman August 29, 2006 - Warner Bros. TV has hired David Nutter to direct the pilot for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a potential FOX series based on the character from the Terminator films originally played by Linda Hamilton. The pilot is written by Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds). Nutter is a very experienced TV veteran, with directing credits going back to shows like 21 Jump Street. He served as a producer and frequent director on The X-Files, and directed the feature film Disturbing Behavior. In recent years, Nutter has become a go to guy to direct series pilots, having done so for the likes of Smallville, Supernatural and Without a Trace. Variety notes that Nutter's last 12 pilots have been picked up to series, which puts the odds high in Sarah Connor's favor. Casting will begin immediately on Sarah Connor, which will go into production in early 2007 in New Mexico. The pilot and proposed series will pick up with Sarah after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as she and her son John continue to prepare for the war with the machines she fears is coming. In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, we learned from an adult John Connor that Sarah had died of leukemia, though it's unclear as yet how closely the series will stick to the continuity of the films. Neither Linda Hamilton nor Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved in the television project. Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar, whose company C2 Pictures produced T3, will executive produce the pilot, with C2 Pictures producing alongside Warner Bros. Nutter told Variety he won't be w**king on any other pilots this year, describing Sarah Connor as, "A huge project that's going to take an extensive amount of preparation and pre-production." The director also stressed his respect for Terminator 1 and 2 writer/director James Cameron, saying, "It's important for me to live up, as best I can, to the bar that Jim Cameron set," adding that he wants to make sure to protect, "the integrity of what Cameron created." |
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| Just curious what everyone thinks about this....... :ponder: Hmmmm, not sure about this. I will be really pissed off if they ignore the continuity of T3 to make it. |
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| last update :shrug: |
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| From Imdb.com - "Sarah Connor Chronicles" Tv Series - More Details Plot Outline : A modern-day warrior and single mom hides from a government out to get her and her teenage son. Set after the events in ’Terminator 2’ Sarah Connor and her son John, trying to stay under-the-radar from the government as they plot to destroy the computer network Skynet in hopes of preventing Armageddon. Summer Glau will play Cameron, a classmate of John Connor. Cast : Aaron James Cash... Terminator Thomas Dekker ... John Connor Summer Glau ... Cameron Lena Headey ... Sarah Connor Gary Houston ... Mr. Ferguson Richard T. Jones Danielle Lozeau ... Hero Student Brandon Molale Shawn Prince ... Daniel |
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| The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox) — Word is the Fox execs are very happy with this pilot that follows Sarah Connor and her son John from the Terminator movies as she fights to save the world from those evil machines. Even better? Sarah Connor is played by Lena Headey of Imagine Me & You, and Summer Glau (from Joss Whedon's Firefly) plays the role of Cameron, a fellow student at 15-year-old John's high school. The buzz says this is one pilot that will surely be picked up for a series. |
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| James Middleton, a consulting producer on Fox's upcoming SF series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, told SCI FI Wire that the show will reboot the mythology and take it in a different direction from the hit movie franchise. "The Sarah Connor Chronicles is really a new expression of the franchise, and it is a denouement, really, to Sarah Connor and that character that was introduced in the first two movies," Middleton said in an interview Jan. 5 at the Golden Apple comic shop in Los Angeles, where the cast signed autographs and screened the pilot episode. Specifically, the show--which stars 300's Lena Headey as Sarah and Heroes' Thomas Dekker as John Connor--picks up the story almost directly after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, then sends it on its own trajectory, as if the events in the subsequent feature film, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, won't happen. "The mythology has always posited that, through this aspect of time travel, events being changed in the past could change events in the present and in the future," Middleton said. "So what we've posited with the series is exactly that: that through this mechanism, from the mythology, we've created a whole new timeline for Sarah Connor. And it is different than the movies." A fourth Terminator film is also in works, but it will stick to the movie chronology, in which, as fans know, Sarah Connor dies before Terminator 3 begins. "T3 is its own separate thing," Middleton said. "The movie chronology in terms of the Terminator franchise will be different than the television show." Middleton promised that the show will remain true to at least one aspect of the film franchise. "One of the things that have always been endemic to the Terminator franchise movies is big, big narrative surprises," he said. "And we deliver those every episode. ... Huge surprises every episode." Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which was created and is executive-produced by Josh Friedman, debuts on the Fox broadcasting network over two nights, Jan. 13 and Jan. 14 . |
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| Does anyone when Virgin 1 are going to start showing this series? :shrug: |
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| "Hello there Neil! Please can you help me, I'm trying to find out when the Terminator spin-off TV series will be shown in the UK, it's not listed on the premiere list page?" Neil: Sarah Connor Chronicles will air on Virgin 1 in the Spring, alongside Chuck. The former gets its premiere in the US this Sunday. |
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Well according to Scifi Now Magazine it's airing this month but no start date was given I was worried I missed it. :shrug: |
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| I have just watched the pilot to this and its looking very promising. |
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| Fox's Jan. 13 debut of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles scored the best opening-night demographic ratings of any new show in three years, Variety reported. Boosted by strong marketing and a big NFL playoffs lead-in, the Warner Brothers TV-produced Terminator notched a 7.6 rating/18 share among adults 18-49 and delivered some 18.3 million viewers with its one-hour debut on Sunday at 8, preliminary Nielsen national data showed. The pilot gave Fox its best premiere numbers for a scripted show in eight years, since Malcolm in the Middle became an instant hit on a Sunday night in January 2000. |
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| First 2 eps are available via the usual suspects. It starts here on Virgin 1 on 21st Feb - the date's in the board calendar :) |
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| Weedy' action heroine under fire Fans and feminists criticise a British actress for having the wrong physique to play the star role in American TV's hit Terminator spin-off David Smith The Observer, Sunday January 20 2008 Nice acting, shame about the biceps? The latest British actress to play an iconic action heroine has run into sniping about her figure in body-conscious Hollywood, provoking claims that muscular women make better feminist role models than those who look 'emaciated'. Lena Headey, who grew up in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, is the star of American TV's new big hit, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The science fiction spin-off from the Terminator movies, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, premiered last week to critical plaudits and more than 18 million viewers. But Headey, 34, has found her physique unfavourably compared with that of Linda Hamilton, who made the Sarah Connor role famous in the original films. In 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Hamilton's character is seen working out and building her upper-body strength to outfight men and protect her son from a killer machine sent from the future. In the process she became 'a butt-kicking inspiration to millions of women', noted the Los Angeles Times last week. 'Such an inspiration, in fact, that some who worship at the altar of Sarah Connor detect heresy in the casting of Headey, who's healthy looking and attractive but not exactly Ms Olympia.' The nine-part TV series, which will be shown here starting next month, has been praised by US critics as a more successful revival than Bionic Woman, starring ex- EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan. Headey's performance has gained some positive reviews, but her shape has not. Mark Perigard of the Boston Herald wrote: 'I'd like to give her time - and some pasta - to help her grow into her jeans. Headey looks remarkably like actress Lara Flynn Boyle. She's a twig of an action heroine.' An online fan group has gone further, arguing that the casting is a dangerous example of the growing acceptability of emaciation and anorexia. The Sarah Connor Charm School, which describes itself as 'an art project focused on physical feminist empowerment', has posted pictures comparing Hamilton and Headey's back muscles on its website. Its spokeswoman, Kym Lambert, told The Observer: 'We were very upset to find out that a very thin and non-athletic actress had been chosen out of, supposedly, hundreds to play a role that we as physical feminists found so inspiring. We see this as yet another example of the media trying to inspire women to be thin, to "keep our place" (as in not take up too much room) and to keep us from being strong. 'The premise of physical feminism is that women are just as capable of defending ourselves as men, that the concept that we are weaker than men is a cultural myth rather than a physical reality. And Hamilton's portrayal of Sarah Connor was a key media icon for that belief.' The British feminist and novelist Bidisha, a fan of the Terminator films, also expressed disappointment at the casting of Headey. 'I am shocked to find out that the producers are clearly sanctioning a new, weedy silhouette in such an iconic and genuinely groundbreaking role,' she said. 'There are two issues here: having a toothpick-thin, feeble-looking Sarah Connor is a crime against the iconography of the character; and presenting a clearly emaciated actress as a heroine is a crime against women.' Headey's films include The Remains of the Day, St Trinian's and 300, in which she played the formidable Spartan queen Gorgo. In her spare time she has taken boxing lesson in south London. She brushed off 'the bicep debate' in a recent interview. 'The film had the luxury of more money and more time,' she told the Los Angeles Times. 'If they were gonna give me a month, and a trainer every day, and a chef, then it would be fantastic ... It's a TV show, for God's sake!' James Middleton, the executive producer of the series, said: 'It's two years after the events of Terminator 2 and it's reasonable to posit that she hasn't felt the need to work out five hours a day. In any case, it's small to focus on biceps when Lena is doing some incredible acting. She makes the character her own and embodies the ideals of Sarah Connor. I'm much more interested in that than whether her biceps are smaller than an actress who played the character before.' Schwarzenegger, now governor of California, does not appear in the TV series. Its pilot episode featured a terminator played by British actor Owain Yeoman. The plot follows Sarah striving to protect her 15-year-old son from robots sent from the future, helped by a female android. |