Yes you read that right, according to The Guardian there’s going to be a Terminator TV series based on Sarah and John Connor and placed between the second and third movies, it’s billed as – wait for it…
…not be a guns-and-car-chases series, partly because of the reduced budgets on television: “There’s going to be a healthy dose of both [action and family drama],” he said, noting that the Terminator franchise “has a lot of big ideas in it that don’t cost you a dime to explore”.
He is in fact Josh Friedman the writer of Chain Reaction, War of the Worlds and The Black Dahlia.
Hamilton is not expected to reprise her role. And neither is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
No surprise there, but that’s not all, because there’s talk of tying in with the Terminator 4 movie in development, and the exact quote is…
the show’s producers said that a fourth Terminator is in development and that the series will have a link to what’s being envisioned as a new feature trilogy.
That’s from the show Producer James Middleton. A new trilogy of Terminator movies? Well Arnie won’t stand three, maybe one. There’s definitely a handover of the Terminator body then, perhaps one more with Arnie bowing to the new model?
This could be a great idea. What I would like to see is a television show based on the trilogy of T2 novels by S.M. Sterling: “T2 – Infiltrator”, “T2- Rising Storm” and “T2 – Future War”. Solid popcorn books which goes into detail about the history of the machines. Why it looks like Arnold. What Cyberdyne is really doing with the future techology. Plus the villianess of the first novel I-950 (Serena Burns), is this sexy petite little thing (right now I’m thinking a Kristen Bell type of gal). EVIL.
The book series started before T3, so it different. It picks up a few years after T2 in South America where labeled terrorists John and Sarah Conner are living. Things go bad, very. I would love to see the airport battle. The Conners fighting three Terminators. The machines are built here, using current technology with one exception, the CPUs; Burns brought several chips with her, implanted in her stomach for her temporal trip. Lets all hope for the best. Please don’t be crap.
And let this be a lesson to all: just say no to drugs.
Too many people are smoking some heavy duty peyote.