Summer Glau joins cast of "The Sarah Connors Chronicles"

[goldenboy]

Sarah Connor Chronicles (Warner Bros. TV)
Exec Producers: Josh Friedman, David Nutter, James Middleton, Mario Kassar, Andrew Vajna, Joel Michaels
Cast: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Richard T. Jones
Logline: "Terminator" character in L.A. fights attackers from the future.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117958299.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&query=sarah+connor+chronicles

http://whedonesque.com/comments/12422



The Sarah Connor Chronicles is an American television series that is set to premiere on the Fox Network in 2007. It will revolve around the life of Sarah Connor, and her son, John Connor, during the time between Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

The pilot will be directed by David Nutter and the screenwriter is Josh Friedman. Andrew Vajna and Mario Kassar will serve as executive producers, with C2 senior vice president of development James Middleton also producing.

The series will be filmed in New Mexico.

Sarah Connor formerly played by Linda Hamilton in T1 and T2 will be played by Lena Headey.

John Connor, formerly played by Edward Furlong (Terminator 2), Michael Edwards (Terminator 2) and Nick Stahl (Terminator 3) will be played by Thomas Dekker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sarah_Connor_Chronicles

[Wesley_Wyndam_P]

isn't Thomas Dekker the guy who plays Zach in Heroes?

[Bored of the Dead]

Summer Glau joins cast of "The Sarah Connors Chronicles"

I won't let it put me off watching

[goldenboy]

I won't let it put me off watching

Really? What's the prob? I think she's a pretty good actress. Not your cup o tea?

isn't Thomas Dekker the guy who plays Zach in Heroes?

Apparently so, yeah.

[eponinethen]

I was gonna watch it anyways 'causee of Lena Headey (Imagine Me & You, aww), but if Summer joins I'll definitely watch it :)

[Bored of the Dead]

Really? What's the prob? I think she's a pretty good actress. Not your cup o tea?


I just don't think she is that great an actress and I definitely don't find her attractive.
There is nothing in that package that 'floats my boat'.

I understand I may get a slew of neg Karma but I don't mind on this one.

[goldenboy]

I hear ya. I can't really tell how good she is/may become. There's not much natural theatricality or "presence" about her. I think she emotes fairly well...pretty good with the emotional breakdown.

I don't know what her character's gonna be, but I hope she gets a chance to kick some ass. It's cool to have someone that graceful in a fight scene...

Edit:

Serenity Comes to Sarah Connor
Firefly veteran Summer Glau joins the Terminator TV project, but who is she playing?

by Eric Goldman

February 8, 2007 - Yesterday we spoke to Summer Glau for an interview for IGN TV that will be appearing on our site early next week. The actress, currently appearing on The Unit and best known for her role as River Tam in Joss Whedon's Firefly and its film sequel Serenity apologized for being, "a little bit blurry," noting that she was in the midst of shooting a pilot and had been up until five or six in the morning shooting that morning. "But it was fun! We were doing fun stuff," she added, saying, "I'm really excited about it. I think it's going to be awesome. I'm having a wonderful time."

When we pressed for details on what the pilot was, Glau replied, "Well, I'm not supposed to say yet. It's supposed to be a surprise. But it's killing me, because they've announced some of the other characters, but I'm not supposed to say. My character is a surprise." However, she did tell us the pilot was for FOX.

Immediately we couldn't help think that she was likely referring to The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Terminator spinoff was set to shoot about now, and the mentions Glau made of working on a FOX pilot with action elements fit the bill.

Well as it turns out, we've discovered that last week Variety did indeed note, in the midst of a pilot update piece, that Glau is part of the cast of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, so what project she is working on can be laid to rest. However, this begs the question of what character she is playing, and why the need for secrecy, when they've announced other actors and the characters they play, such as Thomas Dekker as John Connor and Lena Headey in the title role as Sarah.

Given Glau's very impressive background doing fight scenes, and the fact that she played something of a programmed killer in Serenity, our minds have started to wander… and we can't help think, what would a Sarah Connor story be, without a Terminator in the midst? This is just our speculation mind you, and Glau could be playing any number of characters the Connor family encounters. Assuming The Sarah Connor Chronicles is picked up, we will hopefully find out the secret of Glau's role in the coming months.
http://tv.ign.com/articles/762/762971p1.html

[nerd4hire]

Hope she gets a chance to do some more of her fight ballet. That stuff is special.

[Randy Giles]

This show...ugh. I don't want it to be picked up at all, I have no interest in watching something based on those movies. I do like the sound of the cast but FOX has too many other pilots in production that sound WAY more interesting this. And if it does get picked up, it needs a better name.

[goldenboy]

Alright, it's official. Summer's a Terminatrix.

Headey Reveals Connor Chronicles

Lena Headey, who stars in the the Fox SF drama pilot The Sarah Connor Chronicles, told SCI FI Wire 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.)

The pilot, which picks up the story from the end of the feature film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, begins in the desert, and "it ends with them landing in L.A., having run and escaped. Or maybe not," Headey said in an interview at WonderCon in San Francisco on March 3.

"We just finished [shooting]," Headey (300) said. "We were in Albuquerque [N.M.] for a month. And it was very intense, because TV is crazy. I mean, it's long days. It's like boom, boom, boom. You don't get any respite. But ... I think it's going to be great. I don't know if its going to be picked up, because it's only in pilot stage right now. But I learned to shoot many weapons and how to recognize a Terminator. So it was a good experience."

The pilot "begins, and it's them basically running, hiding, trying to live," Headey said. "Trying to carve out a normal life for themselves, but always being watched and trying to locate Skynet, trying to stop [it]. But there are many, many issues in their way." —Patrick Lee, News Editor
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=40390

[goldenboy]

Huh. Did you guys watch the trailer (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7mzoqHahU)? Makes it look like Summer's gonna be the Arnold character from T2 - the friendly terminator. Lena Headey seems alright, but she doesn't have that psychotic intensity that Linda Hamilton had. How are they gonna build a whole series around this...

[nerd4hire]

I think the big hurdle they've got to jump is the immediate connection people make with the original actors. They're icons. You've got a buffed up Linda Hamilton kicking ass and taking names, then how do you out-Arnold Arnold?

If the writing is monstrous clever they might have a chance, but I didn't see any evidence of that in the clip.

I'll still watch it for as long as I can tolerate it for Summer though. Again, hope she gets to do some action stuff.

[eponinethen]

Hm I dunno if this will be great but I'm really looking forward to it anyhow. I kind of love Lena Headey, and well, Summer of course, so yeah, anything will be worth it, kinda..

[nerd4hire]

It looks like it's going to be a mid-season replacement.

Fox announced May 18 that it will wait until next January to premiere the Terminator-inspired drama The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which will air Sundays at 9 p.m. Fox entertainment president Peter Ligouri made the announcement at the network's up-front presentation for advertisers in New York, and noted that the series will air in the timeslot once dominated by The X-Files. Chronicles will air uninterrupted until the end of the season in May. Based on the characters introduced in the Terminator films, the series stars Lena Headey in the title role and Thomas Dekker as her son, John Connor, the future leader of the human rebellion against an army of machines.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=41539

That bit about getting X Files old timeslot, isn't that just a nice way of saying they're going to kill it in the Friday night death slot?

I'm not optimistic about seeing a lot of episodes of this one.

[nerd4hire]

Here's the second page of interview with Summer concerning her role TSCC. This is starting to sound like it's going to be worth a watch.

GN TV: In the pilot, your character is sort of undercover as a high school student, right?

Glau: Yes. Yes, I'm still playing high school! [Laughs]

IGN TV: But now you're playing someone only pretending to be in high school.

Glau: True! True enough. It's really fun. We had a great time.

IGN TV: Obviously you've had a lot of action scenes in the past, especially in Serenity. Were you able to call on some of the same skills here?

Glau: Yes. You know, from being a ballet dancer, there's something about it --Getting your adrenalin going on set. Getting your heart pumping. Getting physical - that really is satisfying for me. I loved it. And that was my favorite day on set. My favorite day of the shoot was when I got to do my big fight scene with Owain [Yeoman], who's also in the pilot.

IGN TV: Can you talk at all about what the central plotline will be? Will Owain always be the bad guy, or are there other threats coming at you guys?

Glau: Well you would have to ask that man there [pointing across room]. He's one of our executive producers and he wrote the pilot. He created this whole thing and we keep trying to get him to give us secrets, but we're shot down.
[Editor's Note: In fact, we did speak to that man -- Josh Friedman -- and will be putting up that interview soon on IGN TV]

IGN TV: So from the clips I saw, it looks like you have a fight scene while you're naked?

Glau: [Laughs] Can you believe it was snowing outside too?! We were in Albuquerque and I'd never been so cold in my life. I had three different night shoots where I had to be naked.

IGN TV: You're kidding.

Glau: Three different nights where it was snowing and it was night shoots, so it was all night long. So I wasn't very happy about that, but actually, I saw parts of it and it looked pretty cool.

- USA/CBS Paramount
Glau (with Jeffrey Combs) in The 4400
IGN TV: I have to tell you, I wondered what it was about you, science fiction, and nudity…

Glau: I know, I'm always naked and always fighting people! [Laughs]

IGN TV: Well at least you're always kicking ass.

Glau: Thank you! Yeah, I'm doing good.

IGN TV: Do you start shooting the series in July?

Glau: That's what I've heard, but I haven't heard anything definite yet. I'm still doing The 4400 right now too.

IGN TV: That was my next question. So you will be back this season?

Glau: Yes, yes. I'm doing more 4400's.

IGN TV: That's great. Do you know how many episodes we might see you on?

Glau: It's supposed to be four. I've already shot one and I have four more.

IGN TV: What episode will you show up on for that?

Glau: I'm in the opener; the premiere. And then I'm slated to be in the last four. We'll see. You know, it depends on what happens with [Sarah Connor]. But I'd love to go back. I love that show.

IGN TV: So you'd consider yourself fully immersed in the sci-fi world at this point?

Glau: I think so! Science fiction's been so good to me.


The Sarah Connor Chronicles premieres in early 2008 on FOX.

The 4400: Season 4 premieres on June 17th, at 9:00 pm ET/PT on USA.


http://tv.ign.com/articles/794/794321p2.html

[white avenger]

This show...ugh. I don't want it to be picked up at all, I have no interest in watching something based on those movies. I do like the sound of the cast but FOX has too many other pilots in production that sound WAY more interesting this. And if it does get picked up, it needs a better name.

Hey, man, I know exactly what you mean. A few years ago, they tried to have this show based on this absolutely TERRIBLE movie that I had seen awhile before that. I think they called it "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer," or some such. Now, I ask you, who could possibly watch such a lame show, and if they did, who would admit it?

(Just funnin' you, friend, but at least give it a chance. You might like it. One thing's for sure, no matter how it turns out, it'll beat the hell out of any reality show out there.)

[nerd4hire]

This may be nasty, but I have to honest. Even if that series does suck I'll sit through the whole thing waiting for this scene mentioned in the Summer Glau interview quoted earlier.

IGN TV: So from the clips I saw, it looks like you have a fight scene while you're naked?

Glau: [Laughs] Can you believe it was snowing outside too?! We were in Albuquerque and I'd never been so cold in my life. I had three different night shoots where I had to be naked.

IGN TV: You're kidding.

Glau: Three different nights where it was snowing and it was night shoots, so it was all night long. So I wasn't very happy about that, but actually, I saw parts of it and it looked pretty cool.

IGN TV: I have to tell you, I wondered what it was about you, science fiction, and nudity…

Glau: I know, I'm always naked and always fighting people! [Laughs]

IGN TV: Well at least you're always kicking ass.

Glau: Thank you! Yeah, I'm doing good. :whistle:

[Bored of the Dead]

Hey, man, I know exactly what you mean. A few years ago, they tried to have this show based on this absolutely TERRIBLE movie that I had seen awhile before that. I think they called it "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer," or some such. Now, I ask you, who could possibly watch such a lame show, and if they did, who would admit it?


Slight difference, this 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' was a pretty poor film not truly recognised and nowhere near the original concept of the person who made it, leading to him being truly disappointed.

The Terminator films are a huge franchise. The first two are, without doubt, two of the greatest films of the genre. They were not only commercially successful but indeed critically.
T3 shows you that sometimes its best to leave things alone.

I'm not excited about this at all, infact I think i'd prefer to watch Spiderman 3 again(what the funk was that film!?!?!!?) then sit through this.

[nerd4hire]

Check out this fan video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZSTqa7L2R0&NR

Tell me you don't want to see Summer do some more action scenes.

[nerd4hire]

Now this is interesting. It turns out this show might actually be good. The Futon critic has seen the pilot.

What works: To the show's credit, the producers have found a very clever way to bottle up the events of the third "Terminator" film (in which Sarah has died of leukemia) and - once the show is finished - reopen said bottle so the series doesn't conflict with the films. And while it takes a little bit of technobabble gobbledygook to get there, the feeling established at the end of the pilot is one that's fresh, new and (thankfully) unteathered by future continuity. In terms of the actors, you probably couldn't do better than Headey and Dekker. Both do a yeoman's job of easing into their iconic roles, but still obviously take some getting used to. The real prize here though is director David Nutter, who continues to prove why he has the "magic touch" on the pilots he works on. Everything just looks and plays like a feature film and there's nothing here that says this couldn't have worked on the big screen. Previous fans of the franchise will also find plenty to squeal in excitement about - whether it be the closing moments set to Brad Fidel's score, Sarah's narration over a tracking shot of the open road (a la the end of "T2"), more eye rolling Terminator "one liners," POV shots from the Terminator's HUD or just the general feeling of respect for the previous films. I must confess this was way better than I was expecting.

More... (http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20070614)

[RockManic]

Looking forward to this show. Everything I've seen suggests a pretty good series and hopefully one that Fox will choose to give a little development time to.

New shows with Firefly actors and Whedonverse connections just don't seem to work on Fox *cough* Drive *cough* Wonderfalls *cough* but the neither did Firefly... Shows what they know!

[nerd4hire]

This is from an interview with Connors producer Josh Friedman.

IGN TV: I'm a big Firefly and Serenity fan, so I'm very familiar with Summer kicking ass. Was she easy to cast having seen her in that?

Friedman: I love Summer. I tried casting Summer [before]; this was probably four years ago. The last pilot that I did, which never went anywhere, I had hired the same casting agents as Joss [Whedon] had. So they brought Summer in one day, and I fell in love with her. And I tried casting her, but I was in second position to Serenity, the movie. This was right before - Serenity was just starting up. I don't know if they were sure exactly it was gonna go. And I loved her and I used to carry her audition tape around with me and say "I want Summer Glau," and they would always say "You can't have her. She's gonna do Serenity." And I was like "Damn you, Joss Whedon!" And then obviously I saw her in Serenity and thought she was perfect in it and always kept her in mind. And like Lena, there was really no second choice. That part is basically written for her.


http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/798/798086p3.html

[nerd4hire]

I've seen it. It's watchable, but wrestles with stupidity. Summer is the one thing that makes this one special. She's gorgeous here. You don't have to believe me though. You can Check it out (http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/5801)

[eponinethen]

Yeah I have seen it as well, I thought it was alright. Then again, I don't know the story etc., and the only reason(s) I watched it and liked it was 'cause of Lena Headey and Summer..

[Joamna]

I thought it was ok too. Heh, it was so funny though, I said to epo how weird it was to see Summer as just this regular girl not going around all crazy kicking everyones ass, and two seconds later she was robot girl kicking everyone's ass.

[Hexaphim]

That was actually a lot less bad than I'd thought it would be. I will give this a chance when it starts airing, I think!

[Randy Giles]

I loved The Sarah Connor Chronicles a *lot*. But truth be told, I was not expecting it to be good period so I was probably just very impressed that it wasn't completely lame. For an action series it didn't let me down, either.

[Mortal]

I just downloaded and watched the pre-air pilot. IMO it was very good and bodes well for the series. Excellent cast. And I didn't feel it wrestled with stupidity anymore than any other show involving time travel. What was the problem?

Also I love the idea of Summer as a terminator because 1. she's hot and 2. unlike previous terminators, Arnie in particular, she looks harmless on the surface.

[nerd4hire]

I guess I could go back and watch it again, and list all my nitpicks and niggles, but I don't think I will. For me there's a point where stuff that doesn't make sense based on the rules the show creates for itself becomes disruptive. I'd rate this one around Smallville for that. If Smallville doesn't challenge your ability to suspend disbelief, this one probably won't. It does mine though, and I don't watch it much. Sometimes I do though. I'll watch this one more for the Summer character.

[nerd4hire]

The Sarah Connors Chronicle people had a panel at Comic-Con.

US, July 29, 2007 - Like the Chuck screening (featuring Adam Baldwin) on Friday, the debut of the pilot to The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Saturday at Comic-Con was a reminder that Firefly adoration still runs deep with this crowd. While the audience seemed to love the entire pilot - which had a special extended cut made just for the convention - it was obviously Summer Glau who was the biggest draw for many. As the pilot screened, Glau garnered applause not just from her first appearance, but from several other crowd-pleasing moments that followed in the Terminator spinoff series, in which she plays a protective Terminator sent to help John and Sarah Connor.

Afterwards, the producers and cast from the series took to the stage to field questions. Glau's costar Richard T. Jones humorously said how it was his sad fate to be the person sitting next to Glau who always had to follow her when answers were being given, and thus follow some frequent big cheers from the crowd, such as when she was asked what the appeal of the show was for her and she said "I get to be a Terminator!". The cast seemed to get along very well, and Glau referenced a scene in the pilot at one point, saying "When you're standing on a freeway in Albuquerque, naked, all you have is each other."

More Here (http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/807/807974p1.html)

[nerd4hire]

Goldenboy posted a bunch of Summer Glau promo pics for SCC HERE (http://www.after-darkness.com/showthread.php?t=7329). Thought you guys might like to see them, because there's a definite WOW factor.

[GATEGOD]

When does this show start >.< ?

[goldenboy]

I think it's gonna be Jan 13th or 14th? It was gonna be the lead-in show for 24 on Mondays, but 24's not happening anytime soon, cos of the strike.

[edit]

...the television broadcast of the show was rescheduled to commence on January 13, 2008 after Fox reorganized their broadcast timetable due to the Writers Guild of America strike. As such, Fox's original intention to air Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the Monday 8:00pm ET timeslot as a lead-in program for 24 was also changed. The show was moved to the Monday 9:00pm ET timeslot with Prison Break as its lead-in program.

The series will also air on Virgin 1 in the United Kingdom, TV3 in Ireland, TVB Pearl in Hong Kong, and on the Nine Network in Australia.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Connor_Chronicles)

[Jules]

For those in the UK Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are going to start this Thursday on Virgin 1.

I can't wait for it. I'm really looking forward to the film they have planned for 2009, which will have Christian Bale playing John Connor.

The TV Show looks like it should be good to watch. I'm not a huge fan of the first 2 shows, so I've not got this clear image of what Sarah should be like, so I think I should enjoy the show. Plus I've just seen the trailer on TV and it looks good.