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Sarah Connor chronicles goes overseas

SF Universe – Fox is working hard to make sure that everyone gets to see their new series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (my kingdom for a shorter title!).  First they premiered the pilot online for 24 hours, next there will be a fabulous premiere and party at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on Jan. 9 and then the show will have a two night premiere on Fox.

Now the series is reaching out far and wide to connect with even more fans!

In an unprecedented move, Fox and Warner Bros have joined with the American Forces Network to bring Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles to the troops! Normally, our American fighting forces have to wait months to see the latest in US TV, but not this time.  The pilot episode of the series will air on AFNprime, Monday, January 14, just hours after the US network premiere of the series.  To make this event a real party, AFN will also air all three Terminator movies on either side of the show’s premiere.  (The TV series takes place between movies 2 and 3.)

Stateside, Fox and Verizon invite you to Get Terminated!  The Chronicles bus will be touring the US from January 9 to January 30 making stops in dozens of cities including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas, Washington D.C., Phoenix, St. Louis, San Diego and Charlotte. Terminator street teams will distribute branded premium items and invite fans aboard the bus to Get Terminated by filming an action scene opposite a Terminator in front of a green screen. The completed video clip will be sent to the fans email and/or Verizon Wireless phone, where it will then be available to share with friends and family, and to post on social-networking sites like MySpace.

Verizon V CAST subscribers will also have access to specially-produced Chronicles videos, wallpapers and ringtones which can be unlocked using a code word delivered each week on the TV series.

Interview with Sarah Connor ;)

io9 – io9 talks to the producer James Middleton and star of the show Terminator: Sarah Connor chronicles, Lena Headey

io9 spoke with star Lena Headey and producer James Middleton of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles today to try and torture secrets out of them, Skynet-style. Luckily, we also sent robot duplicates of ourselves back in time to infiltrate the set while they were filming, and to take out the future leader of the human resistance. Check out what we learned after the jump, and tune in when this show gets started on Sunday night.

• The show ignores everything laid down by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, especially since Sarah Connor is dead in that movie. Ouch. Although she wasn’t originally supposed to be. According to James Middleton, “Early drafts of T3 had Sarah in it, and while that was eventually unable to happen, I think that was a good thing for us because it has allowed Lena Headey to come in and do such a good job as Sarah in this show.”
• So during what time period is this new series set? Is it pre-internet? Middleton: “No, it’s not pre-internet. Through the pilot, we deposit our heroes in the present day.”
• If you’re wondering how the T4 film will affect this new television series, Middleton said “I think they will naturally cross promote each other. In terms of the timelines, we’ve created an entirely new one for the show. We’ll be following Sarah’s journey through this new timeline, and we’ll be staying with her on that journey. Sarah is always concerned about her mortality, if she dies, will her work be done? In terms of our show, the pilot establishes that we move away from T3 entirely. The plot is informed much more by Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
• He’s also working on a new animated Terminator project, which will be a series of short animated pieces done by different animation directors, just like The Animatrix. “I’m working on a production called Termination that would use animation directors from all over. It will be like The Animatrix, but will be much more worldwide in flair. We’ll have European animators along with Japanese anime auteurs.
• Since production was shut down after only 9 episodes were completed, is there any hope for more episodes this season? Middleton: “I don’t know, I have a feeling that the nine shows we have will be our first season. It takes a show about nine weeks to get back up and running. Our show is very involved in terms of CGI, costumes, and sets so that preparation time is crucial. It would really be up to Fox.
• Does that mean episode nine serves as a season finale? “Actually, yes. It turns out that episode has a very big cliffhanger ending.”
• Given the shortened season, where does that leave Sarah emotionally at the end of these episodes? Headey: “I think it’s such a kind of ongoing evolution. Her relationship with John is reaching new depths. There’s a lot of things going on with Sarah, she’s learning to be a mother, she’s learning what it is to live like this. It’s a complete realization of what’s going on.”
• Are you sick or being compared or contrasted to Linda Hamilton at this point? “Yes, I’m a little tired of that comparison. Linda Hamilton will always be the original Sarah Connor, but I’m hoping to bring fresh eyes to it. It’s a new era and I’m approaching it in a new way.
• Did you get banged and bruised up during the filming? Do you have any stunt injuries? “Just a lot of hand injuries, because it seems like every “breakable surface” never breaks. So you have experts telling you to ‘Just hit it’ and it doesn’t break!”
• Given that the show is called Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it’s obvious that there is going to be a lot of interaction between Sarah and Cameron. Can you talk about that at all? “It’s very complicated because Sarah has a well-earned fear of machines, yet she must keep this machine close to her in order to protect her own son. But, as the series goes on, it’s impossible for Sarah and John to not become attached to Cameron as a being. We’re watching Sarah deal with what is her biggest nightmare and have her embrace it each day.”
• You had to re-shoot some of the scenes in the pilot because of the shootings at Virginia Tech. Would the network still make you re-shoot it today?? Were you upset about it? Middleton: “No, we actually found very clear headed people at the network, and we were all horrified by the Virginia Tech shootings. One must remember that the premise of our show is that Terminators and others are coming from the future to kill a child, and that might happen in public places. One thing we do in the show is that we really value human life. Sarah is really conscious of this as the show goes on and in thinking about who must die in the fight against Skynet.
• If you had the power to go back in time and change anything, what would you change now to make a better future? Lena: “I can’t choose an answer to this one! I guess mine would involve world politics, but I won’t go into that right now. Or…give me a time machine so I can erase wrinkles but not my wisdom.”James: “I think I’d go back and change a certain election in 2000.”Lena: “Uh, I think that’s what I was trying to say, James.”

Summer Glau Takes on a Mammoth. . . Mammoth!

SF Universe – Though it sounds like some wacked out Discovery Channel version of Celebrity Deathmatch, it’s actually a SCI FI Channel original movie that hits DVD this week.

Mammoth (bet they stayed up all night thinking of that title) stars Firefly’s Summer Glau as “Jack” (yes really) the fiesty daughter of the only man alive who can save the world from this reanimated beast.

You know how it goes, meteor smashes into a Pleistocene museum, giving life to a frozen, 40,000-year-old mammoth who is pissed as hell and not going to take it anymore. Said mammoth goes on rampage and who will stop it?

Special Agents Powers (Leila Arcieri) and Whitaker (Marcus Lyle Brown) are given 17 hours to kill the mammoth (17? You couldn’t make that a full 24?) or else the entire town will be decimated.

The agents recruit local paleontologist Dr. Frank Abernathy (Vincent Ventresca) to help them hunt down the creature with the aid of his daughter and his (get this) “B-movie-fanatic father”, Simon (Tom Skerritt).

There’s a whole lot of stomping going on as the digital beast wrecks havoc and that’s not to mention what he does to the town!

Let the rampage begin!

“You can’t release this movie! I have a career now! I’m starring in the new Terminator TV Show! I’ll get you for this SCI Fi!!!”

Watch Sarah Connor chronicles pilot a week early

Yahoo TV – If you just can’t wait for Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles to begin, there is a way to see pilot a week early. Yahoo TV is going to show first episode of SCC on Friday, Jan. 4 at 9:00 PM PT/Midnight ET. The one time showing will be available as a free streaming video exclusively on Yahoo! and only for 24 hours.

Sarah Connor Chronicles prize pack

SF Universe – We’re so excited about the premiere of the new Fox series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles that we’re giving away a rare piece of memorabilia. The winner of this contest will receive the logo’d lockbox, letter and key that was sent only to select members of the media.

Here’s what you win!

Here’s how you can win!

In the future, John Connor will be responsible for saving the world from the Terminators created by Skynet, but his actions today can change what happens tomorrow, so basically the future is NOW.

If you’d like to win the Terminator prize pack leave a comment on this post with a valid email address and answer this question:

If you had the power, what would you do RIGHT NOW in order to create a better world in the future?

The winner will be chosen by a team of B5 bloggers on January 31, 2008.

Sorry but only readers residing in the US and Canada are eligible.

Spread the word and don’t miss the premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on January 13 on Fox.

Want to learn more about the show? Visit my show resource page.

New pictures for Sarah Connor Chronicles

SF Universe – SFU has some new pictures from upcoming series Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (SCC). Say what you want but pictures of a man that should represent “bad” terminator are a bit funny. It’s like he’s trying to be mean 🙂
Anyway, here are the photos from SF Universe.

Ok, these are just my picks (hehe, I like Summer Glau, what can I say), for the rest of images click here.

Looking back at 2007 : part four

SF Universe – As we round into fall, it’s the last of our look back at the SciFi stories that made us go hmmmm.OCTOBER

Fox shuts down Buffy “Once More With Feeling” fan sing along events

Chris Pine wins Kirk role in new Star Trek flick
Kristin Bell joins Heroes

Stargate Atlantis is picked up for a fifth season

Nichelle Nichols joins Star Trek co-star Takei on Heroes

Production wraps on Indy 4

Fox announces production of new X-Files movie

NOVEMBER

NBC puts together Knight Rider remake as back door pilot even as Bionic Woman remakes flounders in the ratings

Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku team up for Dollhouse

Hollywood writers go on strike and TV production is brought to a virtual standstill

Heroes Origins is shelved due to writers strike and series prepares for an early finale

DECEMBER

Christian Bale confirmed to star in Terminator 4

Peter Jackson signs on to produce The Hobbit, Sam Raimi may direct

CBS Interactive cans entire staff of StarTrek.com

Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 and releases YouTube greetings

USA cancels 4400 and The Dead Zone

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem opens Christmas Day

There! It’s finally over. Lot of things happened last year when you stop and look back. Hopefully, 2008 will be just as full…

Sarah Connor Chronicles in detail

Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles – If someone still doesn’t know what Sarah Connor Chronicles (SCC) is, here is detailed text from SCC website:

What is The Sarah Connor Chronicles (or SCC)?

SCC is a TV show that was spun off from the successful science fiction “Terminator” franchise, about a futuristic world where machines, led by the uncaring Skynet Artificial Intelligence network, has nearly destroyed all of mankind, which it has decided is a pest to the planet, and so must be extinguished. The future human survivors are led by a man name John Connor, who was taught as a young age by a courageous mother named Sarah Connor to fight the machines.

Here is FOX’s write-up for the show:

Executive producers Josh Friedman (“War of the Worlds”), David Nutter (“Supernatural,” “Smallville”) and C2 Pictures (“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”) bring to television an intense new drama based on the celebrated heroine of the “Terminator” movies: Sarah Connor.

At the end of “Terminator 2: Judgment 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 SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES reveals what happens when SARAH (Lena Headey, “The Brothers Grimm,” “300”) stops running and goes on the offensive against an ever-evolving technological enemy bent on destroying her life, and perhaps the world. Her son, 15-year-old JOHN CONNOR (Thomas Dekker, “Heroes”), knows that he may be the future savior of mankind, but is not yet ready to take on the mantle of leadership that he’s told is his destiny. John finds himself inextricably drawn to CAMERON (Summer Glau, “Serenity,” “The Unit”), an enigmatic and otherworldly student at his high school, who soon proves to be much more than his confidante – she assumes the role of Sarah and John’s fearless protector. On their trail are not only threats from the future, but an intelligent and tough FBI agent, JAMES ELLISON (Richard T. Jones, “Judging Amy”), who soon becomes a powerful ally.

Directed by David Nutter and produced by Warner Bros. Television and C-2 Pictures, THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES represents an exciting reinvention of the “Terminator” franchise, in which the strong and intrepid Sarah discovers that protecting her son and stopping the rise of the machines is more difficult than she had ever imagined.

More after the jump…

Looking back at 2007 : part three

SF Universe –

JULY

Summer Glau joins Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

What is Cloverfield?

Laura Vandervoort joins Smallville as Supergirl and is much more welcomed than the two new women added to the Supernatural cast

Angel’s David Greenwalt takes over the helm at Moonlight.

Angel’s David Greenwalt leaves Moonlight.

Zachary Quinto to play Spock. Casting confirmed at ComicCon

AUGUST

Wizard World fans get sneak peak at the new Dark Knight

Roland Emmerich set to direct Fantastic Voyage remake

SEPTEMBER

NBC debuts Bionic Woman remake

Watchman begins filming in Vancouver

Torchwood comes to BBC America

Author Madeleine L’Engle dies at age 88

Fantasy author Robert Jordan dies at age 58

More SciFi for mainstream TV, Moonlight and Journeyman begin with New Amsterdam and The Sarah Connor Chronicles scheduled for mid-season