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Sarah Connor  will be played by Lena Headey and John Connor by Thomas Dekker.

Anyone gonna see the pilots??

Yeah I'll check out The Pilot when it premieres later in the year. I'm sort of interested to see how they've done it, but I'm not exactly looking forward to it. It might just be the disaster we all think it will be.


Cheers, Chismeister.

Interesting theory from IGN. Possible Spoliers ahead.

Quoted from Herc over at Ain’t it Cool IGN reasonably theorizes that Summer Glau, she of “Firefly” and “Serenity” fame, will play a terminator, if not the terminator, in Fox’s “The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Glau’s role is apparently being kept a secret because the audience (and presumably the Connors) will not at first know she’s a killer robot from the future.

Check out the reasoning behind IGN’s theory here.

-Zavier  

Interesting theory. She certainly kicked ass in Firefly and Serenity. I think she would be a good addition to the cast.


Cheers, Chismeister.

Great it now turns intresting.. but i don't think they are using any terminators, may be in some of the dream sequence. I guess

New piece of villain news:

Quoted Text SCI FI Wire caught up with 300 star Lena Headey, who talked more about playing the title character in the upcoming Fox pilot, "The Sarah Connor Chronicles." Headey revealed that the show will begin with a confrontation between Headey's title character; her son, John Connor ("Heroes'" Thomas Dekker); and two new Terminators: a female model, played by "Serenity's" Summer Glau, and a male one, which she called Cromartie, played by Owain Yeoman. One is good and one is bad; she didn't say which is which. Glau's character is named Cameron, an apparent nod to "Terminator" franchise creator James Cameron.

Here is the link to the more of the interview:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=40390


Cheers, Chismeister.

Footage has appeared on YouTube. Check it out, while its still up.

That actually looks really, really cool.

The CGI during that nuclear explosion looked incredible.

I'm actually excited about this series now.


Cheers, Chism.

Wow. I normally don't watch TV, but I'm definatly going to watch that!

Judging from the footage I can see they've definately altered the mythos of this franchise to suit a younger audience. John Connor now has a very pretty, very humanistic female Terminator his own age protecting him and doing everything for him? A girl who obeys his every command? A girl who kicks the hell out of people while she's naked? I'm sure a lot of young guys will be adding that fantasy to their hormone-induced adolescent antics list! I'm sure James Cameron will have a chuckle at this when it hits TV.

The whole thing looks like a teenage fan-flick to me. And to be honest, it just goes to show that there is only one Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger. That other guy just looks like a maniac who's escaped from a mental institute. Obviously, Schwarzenegger can't appear in a silly little TV series, but I'm talking about Terminator 4. Either they put Arnie in it in some capacity, no matter how small, or they don't have any T-800's in it at all. No one else can fill his big boots. I'm a little worried by the fact that the movie rights of this franchise have been sold to those other guys, God only knows what they're going to end up doing with the next film.

Anyway, the only good thing about the series, from what I saw, was the girl Terminator (not the acting, just her looks) and John Connor. I think they managed to find a nice cross between Eddie Furlong and Nick Stahl for the young John, and the new guy seems like he can handle the role. But otherwise, the footage didn't really do anything for me. I'm a die-hard Terminator 1 & 2 fan and they are extremely difficult to match. But with a teenage audience the series will probably do well, just look at Smallville.    

the series should be the John Connor Chronicles... starting from the beginning of the war... showing how he rose to being the great leader... and how they fought the war against the terminators...

that to me would be far more interesting.

Entertainment Weekly has revealed four new posters for The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Click the poster to view the other three.

Want to see the last few drops of what FOX can squeeze out of James Cameron's genius a week early?

The Sarah Connor Chronicles will debut tonight via a streaming presentation at Yahoo Television.

Click here and look for Sarah Connor Sneak Peek on the sidebar.

Well, they fucked it up.

I don't know where to start. The fact that Lena Heady looks 30 and John Connor looks like he's graduating college. Maybe the excruciatingly bad intro, or the fact that it takes a Terminator 5 seconds to aim its gun at John Connor while he's lying on the ground in front of it while we see from roboto-vision that it's "acquiring target..."

There were brief moments og suspense and ingenuity but it was all ruined by the Smallville factor. By John's crying to mom "mommy please stop the terminator! I don't like when it tries to kill me! wah wah wah!"

Here's my prediction of the next few episodes:

John Connor starts at a new school. Sarah Connor tracks down some evil Skynet guy. And then the robots find john and Summer Glau comes and saves him.

Subplots of love will emerge between the terminator and John Connor. They will probably ruin it, but let's see.

And what's with Lena Heady's American accent in the opening voice-over? It comes and goes...