14 DAY TRIAL // If you’re psyched about the planned “Terminator” trilogy reboot, you will be twice so when you find out that a new TV series is in the works as well, conceived as a small screen companion for it. No word yet on which network might carry it.
THR confirms that the new series, which arrives 4 years after the mildly successful “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” is being produced by Skydance Productions and Annapurna Pictures, with Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller on board as writers and executive producers.
Stentz and Miller’s most recent work includes the script for “Thor” and “X-Men: First Class.”
“The TV series will follow a critical moment from the first Terminator film (1984), and where the film's story goes one way, the upcoming series will take the same moment in a completely different direction. As the rebooted film trilogy and the new TV series progress, the two narratives will intersect with each other in surprising and dramatic ways,” THR says.
Another connection with the reboot is the involvement of Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, who also receive executive producing credit. They are the writers Paramount Pictures hired to pen the first “Terminator” installment in the upcoming trilogy, out on July 1, 2015.
For the time being, no release date for the series has been announced but, if it’s conceived as a companion to the film, it should probably come out around then as well.