NEWS: Terminator TV Series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

CELEB: Terminator TV Series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

First came the unfortunate news of an upcoming fourth installment in the Terminator film franchise. Now comes a TV series. Not that Hollywood cares, but sometimes it's best to let a great concept have its day and rest in peace.

British newspaper The Guardian reports that Fox is working on a Terminator spin-off called "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" that will focus on the bad-ass mom character made famous by Linda Hamilton in the first two films. The series will take place during the years that audiences missed between Terminator 1 and 2 -- mostly John Connor dealing with the onset of puberty while he and his mom battle "space-age criminals in downtown Los Angeles."

Scriptwriter John Friedman (Chain Reaction, War of the Worlds and The Black Dahlia) says:

Another statement reads:

Okay, so let me get this straight. No Arnold, no Linda, no guns or car chases...but there will be a shit-ton of mother-son family drama in downtown LA? Sorry, there's already one Lifetime channel... I'll pass.

Unless of course, the script changes to be something more along these lines:

yeah,thats stupid....but a 4th terminator???? fuck yeah. I need to see some future wars.

oh christ.

space age criminals?

That's exactly what I was thinking. Weren't most humans, like, dead in the Terminator future? Are they robot criminals? Who did they steal from - other robots? Did they steal motor oil or something? Bandwidth maybe?

I bet that's it. Crminal robots from the future disguised as Comcast Technicians have travelled back in time to redirect fiber-optic cable towards what will someday be their base of operations. It's so crazy, it just might work.

I'm hype about the tv series. Summer Glau from Firefly/Serenity is playing the teminator! I love her!!

"Space age criminals" should probably read "robots from the future", even though the criminals phrase is one used in the first link. (The second link doesn't say a word about space or criminals, but does mention "a new breed of robotic enemies.")

And it's set in 1980-1990's era LA, probably because it makes it much cheaper to produce.

Without Linda Hamilton it's going to be a tough sell. If you ask me, she's a large part of why T2 is so fucking fantastic.

Yeah, see, there are just some series that shouldn't be made...but what the hell, if they can make a Bionic Woman remake why not spin Sarah Conner off into her own series...I mean the Geico Cavemen are getting their own show...but I can't really see how they are going to do T4, I mean the only thing left is to show is the war in the future...actually, that might be kinda cool...

-V2

this headlines a little old. not only did they work on it, it got picked up this week by Fox as a new Fall series, with Queen Gorgo from 300 as Sarah.

Also its supposed to take place between Terminator 2 and 3

no linda hamilton = not as cool terminator story, period.

who cares.

ohh and the video does not work. embedding is apparently evil.

Not just a 4th Terminator, a whole second trilogy.

Dumb. The first Terminator is a near-perfect action movie hampered only slightly by its dated special effects. The second one was pointless overkill (though, fun when you're 14 as I recall) and number three was pure garbage that trashed the first two. A fourth? Ugh.

Oh if only terminators could self destruct I'd be doing it right now...

This so needs to never happen. It's odd. This kind of thing kills franchises. In fact, there are a whole slew of great movies that actually are diminshed by their sequels or continuing storylines... Highlander, The Matrix, Star Wars... Planet of the Apes.

The series sounds whack. I can go with somebody else playing Sarah, but unless it's one long serialized arc WITH A DEFINITIVE END, it's pretty much pointless to the overall story.

And Space-Age Criminals? Didn't the Space Age start in the late 50s? Do they fight KGB spies and "negros" from the past? WTF does that even mean?

But I'd be up for another trilogy of Future Wars. I could care less if Arnold is in those or not. But I'm sure he'd at least get a cameo, like some survivor that gets dragged off to the Terminator base where they use his skin as a model for...well, y'know.

With the exception of Reloaded and Revolutions, all the extra Matrix stuff has been pretty awesome. Animatrix, the video games, comics, etc.

I was thinking the same thing. Space age from 1957 to 1990's says Wikepedia.

If you're all so hot on Linda Hamilton, you can blame her for all this crap - when she and Cameron divorced, she got the rights to The Terminator, which she promptly SOLD (hence T3, the TV series, etc etc etc).

Linda Hamilton = Complete and Utter Douche.

If only we could send the governator back in time to prevent this from happening...

this really sucks... I never saw the 3rd one, I mean, it wasn't even really needed and it felt out of line, compared to the first two. But to make a 4th ? AND a tv series ? Are they doing that bad in creative-land ? I can't believe no one has good ideas anymore...

Does anyone else hear a Dead Horse whimpering?