Robert Patrick making a guest appearance on Terminator show?

The Stunner · 02-12-2008, 12:21 PM

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iF MAGAZINE: So beyond season one have you developed plots for future episodes?

JAMES MIDDLETON: Weâ€™ve got a general idea of where we want to go with season two. We have an overreaching plot idea, but obviously we havenâ€™t broken any episodes down yet.

iF: Did you create a bible when you approached this series, as to what had to be address from previous films and what had to be left open for more movies?

MIDDLETON: We already had all of the genius stuff that James Cameron created in the first two movies -- so that informs everything we do. We frequently think either quietly to ourselves or out loud to each other about the characters he created. When we started casting the show last fall we started working on the bible and figured out ways that we would expand the mythology because we have a lot of time to do that on a television show that you canâ€™t do in the movies. What we found being fans of the franchise and speaking to other people that were fans of the franchise is that people are really eager for new aspects and inventions based on what was created before in the films, so we spent a lot of time working on that. We spent a lot of time coming up with new characters and new scenarios and showing how really the evil that is presented as Skynet is much more pervasive than shown in the movies.

MIDDLETON: I canâ€™t be that specific, but I can tell you that the future war and Judgment Day haunts everyone and we will be dealing with that in a number of different ways.

iF: Since Arnold Schwarzenegger is not really available to do a cameo, what would you think of bringing Robert Patrick on?

MIDDLETON: I personally love Robert Patrick as an actor and weâ€™ve actually studied his performance in T2 because it was so beautiful and elegant and so well thought out. We have talked about him, but we donâ€™t know what that role would be for him, we canâ€™t bring him back as the character he played before, but that doesnâ€™t mean he canâ€™t play someone else. We do want to have echoes to the previous movies; we feel that is an asset for us. Thereâ€™s a lot of good thoughts towards him so after this season, weâ€™ll have to see how the next set of things play out.

iF: Besides Enrique, who was originally from T2, will there be other characters from Sarah Connorâ€™s past who will help her in the present?

MIDDLETON: Thatâ€™s absolutely right. Sarah is going to have to use other people that she feels she can trust to learn about the new time and world she is living in. The same will be true for other characters even from the first episode, including people that have thought she was dead and gone and when they encounter her or John itâ€™s going to create a whole new set of problems.

iF: How many story arcs does your bible that you created plan ahead for?

MIDDLETON: I couldnâ€™t answer that off the top of my head. But, I can tell you that as we process the number of characters we introduce is significant and the number of stories that come out of those introductions is also significant. What I can tell you we will not do is to tell a story where Sarah is chased by an antagonist Terminator in every episode, she is on the offensive. Through her detective work into how this pernicious artificial intelligence is born sheâ€™s been coming into contact with a lot of different people and each one of those people has a story behind them.

iF: What was incorporated into the new endoskeletons?

MIDDLETON: The design is updated. Jim Lima, who is our visual effects supervisor, made an entirely new endoskeleton and made some modifications that, for people who really wanted to look at how an endoskeleton functions would see it doing more things in terms of mobility that the previous endoskeletons couldnâ€™t do. We have a new design, but as with many of the things from the first two movies, and I worked on the third movie and there were a lot of things I loved there as well, we think the endoskeleton Terminator design is incredibly durable and dangerous. Even though there are more evolved or exotic Terminator models such as the T-1000 or the TX, the endoskeleton designed by Stan Winston or Jim Lima is built for durability and full on war.

iF: Any chance of seeing the other female Terminator Kristanna Loken ?

MIDDLETON: We have not talked to her. I really like Kristanna, and sheâ€™s an amazing statuesque charismatic presence. What we decided to go with a totally new vision of the Terminator franchise. So in some places we felt it was inappropriate to bring in actors from the movies into our world where we having new actors interpret new visions of characters. It doesnâ€™t mean we would ever limit ourselves to not having Kristanna because she is fantastic, but sheâ€™s a different kind of war machine than Josh [Friedman] wrote for Summer [Glau]. Sheâ€™s an infiltrator and this is ultimately what we think James Cameronâ€™s original intent was with Terminator, so infiltrators donâ€™t need to be huge and statuesque or amazingly athletic. Summer happens to be amazingly athletic, but sheâ€™s also petite which we hadnâ€™t seen before. Sheâ€™s a new model and she is the ultimate infiltrator.
-ifmagazine.com

Would be cool to see Robert Patrick on there and what role he would play.

Majin · 02-12-2008, 12:27 PM

would be pretty awesome,i love this show,follow it every week

barfly467 · 02-12-2008, 02:44 PM

I am a follwer of the show too. I was skeptical the first episode, but I have now gotten into it. I want to see John put the move on the Terminator. I know its coming.

Patrick would be cool for a cameo though.

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