Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Creator On Potential Kickstarter Campaign
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Last week, the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign explored the possibilities for short-lived TV series to come back in a big way. Whether or not the Veronica Mars movie will be a big success is inconsequential, because the door has theoretically been opened for other beloved canceled TV series to find an audience after their death. Could a TV series like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles come back as well? According to its creator, don’t count on it.
Screenwriter Josh Friedman created and developed Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles for Fox in 2008. The series ran only two seasons before it was canceled due to low ratings. But with the success of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign, Sarah Connor fans want the same thing for their favorite TV series. Friedman recently took to Twitter to break the news to fans that a Sarah Connor movie project is unlikely. Read his tweets below:
All u asking about a TSCC kickstarter…rights situation, budget necessities, motivation of corporate entities make it HIGHLY unlikely.
— josh friedman (@Josh_Friedman) March 16, 2013
Appreciate the emails/tweets, etc. But VM a very different deal. Again, thx for loving the show. But I think what u got is what you got. #31
— josh friedman (@Josh_Friedman) March 16, 2013
Trust me guys, @annapurnapics knows who I am. They just don’t care. Their goal in life is not to make a TSCC movie.
— josh friedman (@Josh_Friedman) March 19, 2013
Opening in the year 1999, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles followed the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Sarah (Lena Headey) and John Connor (Thomas Dekker) are on the run from the FBI, when a new terminator model is sent back in time to once again try to kill John Connor. He is rescued by yet another terminator model called “Cameron” (Summer Glau), sent back from the year 2027. Sarah, John, and Cameron make a temporal leap to the year 2007 to escape the villainous T-888 and the FBI, and then set out to once again try to defeat Skynet before it wipes out most of humanity.
Although the TV series was a critical success, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles suffered from low ratings. The second season finale — which turned out to be the series finale — ended with a big cliffhanger. It would have been interesting to see how that would have played out in season three or a movie, but it doesn’t sound like that’s going to happen.
