Missy Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 Terminator TV Sarah Connor's coming to the tube As Arnold Schwarzenegger’s killer droid might put it: “Come to TV if you want to live.” Sarah Connor wants to live, so she’s coming to TV. Awful, awful wordplay aside, there’s news that C2 Pictures, who were behind Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines are bringing The Sarah Connor Chronicles to TV. The show – which will trace the events that occurred between the second and third movies – is being set up at Fox. But Linda Hamilton fans will be disappointed: she’s not expected to return to the role of Sarah Connor. There’s also no word on if the most recent John, Nick Stahl, will be involved either. And given the timescale, it’s unlikely that The Governator himself will turn up for anything more than the odd season-finale ratings-grabbing cameo, if at all. James Middleton, a senior C2 executive who’s producing the series, said it will explore what happened to Sarah Connor after the end of T2 when the character went on the run. "She has the weight of the world on her shoulder and she also has to raise a 14-year-old son who may be the salvation of the world.” And Josh Friedman, who penned the first draft of Steven Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds, is in charge of writing the pilot and running the show. "The last thing I want to do is take a title and exploit it," Friedman said. "The show needs to stand on its own while still being respectful of the franchise." Just don’t expect too many huge, James Cameron-scaled set pieces. This is TV budgeted, after all. "There's going to be a healthy dose of both (action and family drama)," Friedman said, noting that the Terminator mythology "has a lot of big ideas in it that don't cost you a dime to explore." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 I can't imagine this being very good. For me, the whole appeal of the Terminator series was to watch Arnold as the Terminator blow shit up. I don't care about the backstory, because it's not that interesting anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted August 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 From Cynopsis: Fox has ordered up a new project based on the Terminator movies, called The Sarah Connor Chronicles, from Warner Bros. TV and with David Nutter set to direct. According to Variety, the project picks up after the last Terminator film, T2, and follows Connor and her son John now 14 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 From Cynopsis: Fox has ordered up a new project based on the Terminator movies, called The Sarah Connor Chronicles, from Warner Bros. TV and with David Nutter set to direct. According to Variety, the project picks up after the last Terminator film, T2, and follows Connor and her son John now 14 years old. Wasn't the "last" film T3, isn't Sarah dead??? Seriously, this is such a bad idea I don't know where to start.. - So it's going to be some lame show about a mom and her kid, using the Terminator films as an umbrella to get audiences. - When I read this I thought cool, a show set in the future about the humans vs cyberdine... - Or couldn't you do it so the first episdoe is on the day Cyberdine becomes self aware? No one is going to watch a show about Sarah Connor being psycho and teaching her son to be a military general, it's just lame! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted August 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 Maybe they're ignoring part three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadzilla Posted August 30, 2006 Report Share Posted August 30, 2006 If it were the late 80s (when syndicated spin-off shows seemed to be popping up left and right) I would be saying "This show could rock!" But the concept is 15 to 20 years behind the times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted September 1, 2006 Report Share Posted September 1, 2006 And Josh Friedman, who penned the first draft of Steven Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds, is in charge of writing the pilot and running the show. "The last thing I want to do is take a title and exploit it," Friedman said. "The show needs to stand on its own while still being respectful of the franchise." Well, it's the thought that counts, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted September 1, 2006 Report Share Posted September 1, 2006 Ha I was right. They're making it a seperate stand alone piece of shit, not interwoven to the movies. Fuckers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Lena Headey ("Imagine Me & You") has landed the plum leading role in the Fox pilot "The Sarah Connor Chronicles." Project, from Warner Bros. TV, continues the "Terminator" movie franchise storyline by focusing on Sarah and her son John, as they fight attackers from the future in present-day Los Angeles. Headey takes over the role made famous by Linda Hamilton in the first two "Terminator" films. Headey's credits include the features "The Brothers Grimm," "The Cave" and "Ripley's Game." She appeared in the telepics "The Gathering Storm" and "The Lonely War," as well as the mini "Merlin." Josh Friedman will write and David Nutter is set to direct the "Sarah Connor" pilot. She's also in 300. She does look like she can hold her own in a fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holacik Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Maybe they're ignoring part three. It sounds like it's taking place between 2 and 3. It will probably suck though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Thomas Dekker…who plays Claire’s recurring confidant on HEROES…will play the teen incarnation of future warrior/savior guy John Connor opposite Lena Headey’s Sarah Connor in Fox’s SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30910 I guess he's not getting his memory back any time soon on Heroes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mull Posted December 26, 2006 Report Share Posted December 26, 2006 Just looking at certain pictures of Dekker he looks like he could make a great John Connor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 The pilot hit the Bittorrent sites today. Not that I'm promoting piracy, just saying :whistle: Edit: Summer Glau from Firefly is in it. I didn't know that before hand and was quite happy about it. Sarah Conner is a badass. She hides weapons in the wall of their house, and is always ready to fight. John Conner seems like a whiney kid, and not the cool kid from T-2. The bad Terminator is pretty cool, in that he has sort of a personality. He even passes himself off as a teacher, but his gelled hair seems kind of weird for a killer cyborg from the future. He hides weapons inside his body, and cuts them out when needed. It mostly takes place in 1999. There is an FBI agent trying to bring Sarah in, and is obsessed with her. I can't tell anything else or I will spoil it. It was pretty good. Not spectacular, but good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 Fox's midseason sci-fi drama "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is getting a "Terminator" branding and a Monday night berth. The series, an offshoot of the "Terminator" feature franchise, has been renamed "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." It will premiere at 8 p.m. Jan. 14 and will run Monday night alongside veteran "24." At its upfront presentation in May, Fox announced a spring launch for "Sarah Connor" at 9 p.m. Sundays. That evoked parallels to the run of another sci-fi drama in the time period, "The X-Files," before the network switched to an all-comedy Sunday lineup. The plan changed last month after Fox brass opted to extend the upcoming seventh season of "24" into June. (With a three-hour premiere instead of a four-hour/two-night premiere and no back-to-back episodes, "24" will run through June 16.) That led to shifting the return of "24's" regular companion, "Prison Break," to April so that the two series can wrap their seasons on the same night, opening the possibility to launch a 13-episode midseason series on Monday in January. "We came around thinking this is a golden opportunity to make 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles' part of the huge surge of excitement in January," said Fox scheduling chief Preston Beckman, referring to the network's January rating surge from the return of "American Idol" and "24." "Fortunately, Sunday night is doing fine with our animated comedies, so we could do that." "Terminator: Sarah Connor," from C2 Pictures and WBTV, stars Lena Headey as Sarah Connor, who, along with her son John (Thomas Dekker), battle attackers from the future. Why Monday? There are too many shows I want to watch on Mondays already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 Oh man, Mondays are gonna rock! 7:00p: Sarah Connor Chronicles 8:00p: Heroes, 24 9:00p: Journeyman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 Oh man, Mondays are gonna rock! 7:00p: Sarah Connor Chronicles 8:00p: Heroes, 24 9:00p: Journeyman Don't forget Raw. It's bound to get good again someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 When that day comes, I doubt I'll be there. The only thing I care about right now is the return of Edge and the potential return of Jericho, neither of which will get me watching again full-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Fox's Sunday debut of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" scored the best opening night demographic ratings of any new show in three years http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=40901 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Did they edit anything out? Rumors were that the school shooting would be edited, but I caught a clip of the show last night and that scene was there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 I didn't notice anything different from the original pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annericelover Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 The only difference I noticed was when Sarah goes into the school in her dream at the beginning, she pulls John from class, in the pilot that aired she pulls him out of the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 What was with the inconsistency in this show? First the girl terminator acting like a normal high school girl, but now she doesn't know how to act human??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 I watched the first 10 minutes last night. Fucking awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annericelover Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 What was with the inconsistency in this show? First the girl terminator acting like a normal high school girl, but now she doesn't know how to act human??? Probably her programming. She was programmed to act a certain way until her reveal to him, than after that, it was left up to her to continue learning. She does give off smirks at times and tries to learn on her own, but it'll take time. I also noticed in last nights episode that when the Terminator examines her(after crashing through the window)she is an unknown model. I assume this will come into play later. I think the show is better than I thought it would be, still some kinks to work out, but remember it's still new, give it a chance. Shows like Full House, Family Matters, Buffy and Hercules did poorly its first season and than went on to become high profile shows. So far, it isn't doing bad in ratings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Are they trying to give a subtle sub plot of attraction to John and the chick terminator? The first two episodes had moments that seemed to imply he wanted to fuck her. Oh, and horrible sound effects, everything seems to be overdone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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