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Tue 24 Jul 2007 | 20h15 GMT+1
Info: www.comingsoon.net
SCC preview, rewrite and leakage
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It's time for Arnold Schwarzenegger to utter those immortal words one more time – "I'll be back!'
Fox is debuting their new action series, "The Sarah Connor Chronicles." "300's" Lena Headey plays
the title character, which is an origin franchise for her role – before her Terminator 3: Rise of
the Machines demise. The series picks up after "T2"; Sarah and John Connor find themselves as
fugitives from the law, and are running from their enemies.
Now all the fans are hoping writer and executive producer Josh Friedman can deliver the goods from
the film series. "When we first started this, people said, 'This takes place between T2 and T3.' As
far as I'm concerned, this is T3; this is the continuation of what I would call the Sarah Connor
trilogy. I think anything that happens after T2 is fair game for us., and I think the ending of T2
– the exploding killing Cyberdine, killing Miles Dyson – sort of changes the timeline for anything in
the future."
The big draw from the pilot episode was the special effects; director David Nutter mentioned how
they'll be keeping up the intensity. "I think there's been a lot of research and development from
the people doing the special effects, Zoic. And a lot of times, once they've done a lot of this
research and development, a lot of the stuff isn't really as expensive to do. So there will be just
as many effects and large-scale things alongside many of the episodes."
Picking up the pace from Arnold and Kristanna Loken is Summer Glau (Serenity, "Firefly") as the new
Terminator, Cameron. This time, she's a teen girl in the role helping to save the world. But Summer
says she's ready to kick ass in the new series. "I spoke to Josh a lot about how he wanted my Terminator
to be, and I think we're going to make my Terminator the most advanced model so far. It's her human
traits; she's going to be the most human Terminator so far, so that's what I'm striving for. I was
just so excited to play this kind of character because in a way she's much like River (Tam) in that
she's isolated. And she's different in how she relates and how she communicates; but she's very strong
and she can't genuinely feel emotion. I was excited that Josh gave me the opportunity to try this role
and that's something that is going to be the most challenging part about her. I want people to be able
to relate to her and in some way, see themselves in here just like I try with all my characters."
Now for Lena, transforming herself out of the shadow of Linda Hamilton is something she can't wait for
– but going to the gym? We'll have to wait for that. "I'm in training right now and just doing regular
workouts; this series is going to develop and, I think, along with that, so will her physicality because
we find them at a different point."
Because everyone saw 300, I don't think I have to state – Lena, you're hot; keep staying hot, don't
change anything!
What can fans expect for the time travel aspect? Friedman notes, "I believe the end of 'Terminator 2'
is '97; the decision to leap forward is both an aesthetic one and story-wise will turn out to be an
important one. There's reasons to come to this specific time, this specific place; it's a show that's
about time travel, but it's not a time travel show. I think certainly we will see characters, both
human and less so, returning from the future to the present. But there are no plans right now to jump
anyone to the future."
Just to point out the time period for the series, Summer mentioned her character was born in the year
2027, and she and John Connor are attending high school.
Producer James Middleton weighed in on the time travel issue as well. "I think it's really a core thing
about our show. Our characters operate and a fight a battle every episode based on faith that they can
prevent Judgment Day - now, they're going to do everything that they can to do that. But the odds against
them are formidable, they have a formidable enemy; so how they operate every day is to fight the fight
they best hey can in each episode."
Now everyone knows, Eddie Furlong did such a great job as John Connor in the movie series, Thomas Dekker
("Heroes") has some mighty big shoes to fill (ok, you can stop laughing now). "I grew up really hooked
on these films, so it's very ironic I'm getting to do this," the actor says. "I know for the younger
generation, and for myself, John was equally important to me as Sarah was. I know a lot of people I hear
from really care about John, and I felt I knew that character. In the series, Jon's life is constantly
evolving, and it evolved a lot from where it was in the films; he's having to hide, he's having to keep
his head down. In the beginning of T2, he's able to keep his head up; he's carefree and I think he's had
to close down a lot more. He's a little quieter and he's a little more pensive; he's having to wake up
to the fact that this won't go away, and he has to really step up to the plate. So I'm trying to
incorporate the main characteristics and emotional core of what was there in the films, while adjusting
it to his current time and place that we're seeing in the series."
Okay, I know what you're all wondering – will Arnold make a cameo? Well, it sounds unlikely. "We've
talked a lot about it," says Friedman. "But the reality is, as governor, he's incredibly busy. And as
a star, he's incredibly expensive."
So maybe we won't get a cameo from the Governator, but heck, we all know how it's going to end, right?
But you can look forward to the race of Terminators coming to your television screens midseason on
"The Sarah Connor Chronicles" on Fox.
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Terminator School scenes revised (From BBC News)
A US TV series based on the Terminator movies is to revamp a key storyline following the Virginia Tech
massacre. The Sarah Connor Chronicles, scheduled to begin next year, follows a mother trying to protect
her son - who may be destined to save mankind.
But a scene in which the young boy is attacked in his school will be revised, TV network Fox has
confirmed. The scene was filmed before a student shot dead 32 people at Virginia Tech University
in April.
The gunman, 23-year-old Cho Seung-hui, later turned his weapon on himself.
Josh Friedman, an executive producer on the Fox TV show, has defended the scenes, which see
15-year-old John Connor come under attack in his classroom. He believed the incident was central to
the show's theme, Fox Entertainment chairman Peter Liguori told the US Television Critics'
Association.
"This woman is charged with protecting and preparing her son to be the future leader of the
resistance," Mr Liguori said. "The one single place a parent has to give up control of their child
is school."
Mr Friedman was the first to acknowledge the scenes should be changed in the wake of the deaths in
Virginia, Mr Liguori added, but he was unable to say how the story would be changed. The producer was
asked whether TV programmes should avoid this type of fictional violence, given that school shootings
were a recurring problem in the US.
"Creative questions are answered on an ad hoc basis, not on a broad one, and we need to respect our
audience," he replied.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles is due to begin in January 2008, with Fox hoping the programme will
inherit the predominantly female audience from the hit American Idol show.
The title role has been given to British actress Lena Headey, who has previously appeared in films
such as The Brothers Grimm and Ripley's Game.
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Previewing the preview
As reported on some sites and forums -and now also ours- the new pilot series of the upcoming The Sarah
Connor Chronicles has leaked on the internet. A workprint of the pilot has been spotted here and there,
and though we have not seen it, there is lots of info available on the contents of the new series.
Forum moderator HopeOfTheFuture has some answers... (SPOILER WARNING!)
- The show opens with the road, same way like T2 ended with the road.
- Yeah, the Terminator have those mechanical sounds where they are moving, but not all the time.
Mostly when they are fighting or are damaged.
- Danny Dyson and Tarissa Dyson are in the pilot. Even Miles Dyson is in it, they show a picture
of it (but it has another face than the one from T2). Unlike the special edition of T2 shows us,
the Dyson family only exists of those three members.
- The guy Terminator just lies dorments, and gets active when a police computer requests information
about Sarah Connor. Then he more or lesss wakes up and starts his mission.
- And there's a really interesting new thing about the Terminator's skin. The ears, when damaged,
are not only flesh but have some mechanical wire to keep the form.
- Our protecting Termi-girl Cameron has openend a safety deposit box at the some kind of bank IN
1963, with a kind of weapon and time travel stuff.
- I still don't know their makes, modelnummers, but the guy Terminator has a red TermoVision while
our protecting Termi-girl Cameron has some transparant with green TermoVision.
- Termi-girl Cameron can smile...
- Sarah is a waitress.
- The Terminator guy rips away a door to a vault, 1 shot looked similar to the T1's scene where
the Endo tries to get through the door while Kyle and Sarah are in the factory. But his movements
look even more powerfull than the movements of a T-800 or T-1000.
- Someone ("one of our best engineers") was send back to build the gun and time travel stuff. Cameron
says that an engineer build a time travel machine in the vault, "so that there was always a way
back home". Oh man, this really contradicts Cameron's story of "no way back".
- Looks like just before traveling into the future, Sarah shoots off the head of the Terminator guy.
Would be a really cool gimmick if they will base SKYNET on this Terminator technology.
- Cameron gives the Terminator guy an overload of electric power. She then tells Sarah that his
system needs a reboot of 120 seconds.
- Sarah has hidden weapons in her house.
- Sarah's age is 33 in this pilot. The show takes place at 09.10.1999. 1999 - 33 = 1966 Sarah's
birthyear.
- Cameron is from the year 2027. She has been looking for John (her mission is to protect John) for
73 days.
- Cameron: The SKYNET missile defence system goes online april 19th 2011. It declares war on makind
and triggers a nuclear 2 days later.
Sarah: Miles Dyson died.
Cameron: Someone else build SKYNET.
Sarah: Who?
Cameron: I don't know.
Sarah: You don't know who builds the computer that blows up the world.
Cameron: I wasn't send here for that.
- Tarissa was told Sarah killed Miles during their raid on Cyberdyne. To prove Tarissa the
Terminators are back, Cameron lights up her pupils to an unhuman color blue.
- Dyson's address:
Dyson Residence
41645 Mulholland Dr.
Los Angeles, Ca
90272
- The Dyson scene is very short. Basic outline:
- You see the kid Danny opening the door, then Tarissa appears. She wants to call the cops.
Sarah forces the phone away. Sarah tells her she didn´t kill Miles and that Miles was a hero.
Then she asks if someone else was involved with Miles because SKYNET continues. Tarissa tells
them Miles was the only one. Then Cameron tells them they need to go, because she somehow senses
the Terminator Cromartie that is arriving. Sarah then asks if Tarissa wants to help her. Tarissa
doesn´t respond. Sarah asks Tarissa if she wants help John. Tarissa looks up, end of the scene.
Next shot of them is driving Dyson´s vehicle into the Terminator. And then the footage you saw
on the IGN clips.
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