The Sarah Connor Chronicles..

If you can't get enough of The Terminator series, a television series titled The Sarah Connor Chronicles is currently in production for the FOX network.. It is confirmed that Linda Hamilton will not be reprising her role as Sarah Connor.. The part of Sarah Connor will instead be played by Lena Headey.. The pilot will be written and directed by David Nutter, and the plot will center on Sarah and her son John, played by Thomas Dekker between T2 and T3, as they try to " live under the radar " after the explosion at Cyberdyne.. At the end of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sarah vanquished the liquid metal Terminator sent from the future to kill her teenage son, John.. Sarah and John now find themselves alone in a very dangerous, complicated world.. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that still more enemies from the future, and the present, could attack at any moment..

The same referenced 9th May Variety article reported that Fox is said to be very impressed with the series and it could be ordered as a full series as early as " this week " according to sources.. It's also said that Kassar and Vajna, the C2 partners has taken a passive role in production of the pilot and it's speculated by Variety that C2 is getting out of " Terminator " altogether and their stake in the series will transfer to the new owners of the franchise, Halcyon Co..

Series Trailer

" Sometimes Messiahs Can't Handle the Burden "

" These Cyborgs Are Tough to Beat "

In case you're not up to speed with the premise for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I'll give it to you briefly.. The series picks up sometime between the second and third movies, with Sarah and her future humanity-saving son, John, on the run and in hiding from, well, any Terminators that might happen to be coming back after him..

Having the series pick up that void between the last two movies makes sense, though where the series has to be careful is how it works its way into what would eventually become the third movie.. One would hope that won't be a problem, as the series is developed by the same people who produced the Terminator movies..

A pilot script for a science fiction series is tough to fully review, as you're left to your own imagination with the effects, which can be a good thing and a bad thing.. I will say the script does a great job of selling the show to the reader, giving you a sense of excitement and awesomeness of what you're " seeing " unfold..

One question I had going into this read was whether the show would feature on something other than Terminators entering the scene again.. I can tell you that they're definitely in this series in a big way.. And much like the movies, we've got both a terminating Terminator and a protecting one, and the protector isn't Arnold; far from it.. In fact, and here's the spoiler, it's a hot, female classmate of John's!

The pilot episode of course features John, Sarah and Terminator trying to flee the big, bad Terminator out to destroy them ( All of which, as far as I can tell from the script, are nothing more than T-800 / 850 models ).. As I read the script, I started to wonder if this was it -- just another cat and mouse chase, only this time lasting 20 some odd number of episodes..

It's not until the final moments of the pilot that you realize there's going to be more to this series.. In a way that I'll leave for you to find out for yourself, Sarah, John and girl Terminator make a time jump from 1998 to 2006; naked.. It's there where the trio hopes to track down the true source of Skynet's activation and hopefully change the fate of humanity, but don't we already know what happens having seen T3?

Even with the cool twists here and there, I'm not sure about this one.. There's a possibility we've got more surprises planned for later episodes, but so far I'm not sold, and I shouldn't be, as this is just a pilot script, one that will very likely be retooled.. The show's success is going to depend a lot on what time slot it appears in and whether casual viewers are going to be OK with the Governator not being in it.. There's also clearly going to be a time commitment for people, this isn't a show you'll easily be able to jump in and out of without feeling somewhat lost..