Sarah Connor Chronicles to Create New T3 Timeline

MSNBC’s Test Pattern blog has an article about the upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series, and one of the most interesting things it mentioned was producer Josh Friedman saying about the show that it will be “in essence, creating a new “T3″ timeline”. This is very interesting, as I’ve always thought the whole concept of SCC would seem to defy much of what “T3″ set up and, in particular, ended.

And since “T3″ was probably the least appreciated of the movies, it makes sense that Friedman and company have been given the “go-ahead”, if you will, to ditch what happened in it. Although I wonder how this will effect the upcoming “T4″, or if the two properties will just go their separate ways…?

The blog also has some interesting “tidbits” about the show that I found amusing and informative at the same time:

–If actress Lena Headey, who plays Sarah, were actually mom to Thomas Dekker, who plays her son, she would have given birth at age 14.

–Don’t expect Headey to display the famously buff arms and bod of movie Sarah Linda Hamilton. Although she noted that she may end up working out as Sarah strives to stay tough and alive, she hasn’t started any workout routine. “As you can see, I’ve done nothing,” she said with a laugh.

–Glau said her Terminator shares some qualities, though not all, with “Firefly’s” River. “In a way she’s much like River in that she’s isolated and she’s different from the other characters in how she relates and how she communicates,” Glau said. “But she’s very strong, and she can’t genuinely feel emotion. River — that’s what she was all about. She was just a jumble of emotions.

–The pilot is being reworked to eliminate a scene in which a Terminator enters John’s school and precipitates a school shooting. Producer Josh Friedman, who wrote the scene, actually grew up not far from Columbine. “I certainly didn’t write it for some sort of shock effect or anything like that,” he said, explaining that he felt the one place Sarah Connor couldn’t protect her son was at school.

–The show’s title could still be changed to “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

–Could Ah-nold ever appear on the series? Don’t hold your cyber-breath. Said Friedman: “as governor, he’s incredibly busy. As a star … he’s incredibly expensive.” But at the moment, the show can’t even use any images of Schwarzenegger as the Terminator.

–Dekker came to the John Connor role after playing Claire’s high-school classmate, Zach, on “Heroes.”