Can Fox TV series do for ‘Terminator’ what ‘Smallville’ did for ‘Superman’?
By Robin Rowe HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 1/13/08 – In ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ quirky single mom Sarah Connor fights killer robots in order to protect her son, the young John Connor who’s destined to save the world from the evil Skynet robotic surveillance system. “The story of this series is even more relevant now than it was in the late 80s and early 90s,” says Thomas Dekker who plays the 15-year-old John Connor. “The world is even more run by machines. MySpace, email, even cell phones. The line between machine and human is being blurred every day.” ‘Terminator’ has a bad Terminator assassin out to kill John Connor and a good Terminator protector to save him. “When I read the script I realized that [show creator] Josh Friedman was trying to do a very different Terminator, a Terminator that looks like the girl next door,” says Summer Glau, who plays the hottie Terminator sent back in time by the future John Connor to protect the high school version of himself. “S
