Archive for September, 2008
casting rumors.
Lena Headey, Summer Glau, Shirley Manson. How many stunning women can we at Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles offer up? At least one more.
Rumors are true — Aussie Stephanie Jacobson joins our cast later this season in a multi-episode arc. Are you familiar with Stephanie? If not, make sure to check out io9’s report on her.
very busy.
Last week we introduced “Kacy Cotton,” the Connors’s very pregnant new landlord and neighbor, as played by actress Busy Philips. Busy is an extremely talented working actress and we are very luck to have her. So spend some time to get to know her. Because you’ll see her again quite soon…
Philipps worked the toy-fair circuit as a real-life Barbie before making her show-business debut. Her first major role was as the part of “Kim Kelly” in Freaks and Geeks, in which Philipps starred in every of the 18 episodes. She later made her film debut in comedy The Smokers in 2000, as well as various other cameo’s on television.
In 2001, Philipps was cast as “Audrey Lidell” in the highly successful teen drama Dawson’s Creek. She was a series regular in series 5 and 6, for which she starred in 46 episodes, before the show finished in 2003. Her role earned Philipps a Teen Choice Awards nomination in the category of “TV - Choice Sidekick”. She was later ranked #58 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. Philipps later stared in two films, Home Room (2002) and White Chicks (2004).
After more television appearances, she then appeared on the UPN sitcom Love, Inc., in a role originally intended for Shannen Doherty. The show lasted for one season (2005-2006) before being cancelled. In 2006, she had a major recurring role as “Hope Bobeck” on ER. During her second year on ER, her character headed to South America to “fulfill her Christian mission”.
Philipps wrote the storyline for 2007 comedy film Blades of Glory. The film was a critical and commercial success and was U.S. Boxoffice #1. A year later, Philipps returned to being in front of the camera with her supporting role in Made Of Honor.
torturing ellen.
Your favorite Resistance Fighter, Brian Austin Green, made a pit stop by Ellen DeGeneres’s show on Monday where he premiered a clip of this coming week’s episode, The Mousetrap! If you missed it, you can check it out here.
look closer.
How astute of a viewer are you? Here are some things you may have missed and a few extra easter eggs for you from last night’s Automatic for the People.
Scattergood Generating Station in El Segundo, CA actually stood in for our Serrano Point Nuclear Power Plant. As the plant is not actually a nuclear plant, the nuclear towers seen in the establishing shots were added in digitally during post-production.
Sarah’s story takes a scary turn when she learns she wasn’t actually ever “crapped up,” not unlike a certain Meryl Streep film. Is it a coincidence that the alter-ego Sarah gives Greenway is “Karen” (as in Silkwood)?
Very pregnant Kacy introduced the Connors to their new home in this episode. This house is actually the Baldwin Hills Oil Field House, a location made famous at the end of the film, LA Confidential. While incredibly secluded and private, a few nearby houses include the family’s mansion in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the Huxtable’s home in The Cosby Show.
Director Jeffrey Hunt also directed last season’s epic Dungeons and Dragons episode. Jeff made his television directing debut on the series CSI. Natalie Chaidez, the episode’s writer, previously wrote the fifth episode of the series, Queen’s Gambit, and may be known to sci-fi/action fans from, among other things, her stint on the first season of Heroes.
Pay attention to the name of the local bar near Serrano Point — it’s actually called The Busted Atom! Funny enough, this bar set was built in the same space that previously occupied Maria’s dance studio in last season’s episode, The Demon Hand. It is located on the Warner Bros lot and you may be seeing it again…
Automatic for the People briefly operated under the working title “No Good Deed.” It was changed before the episode even began production. Many times episodes are given a preliminary title at conception and are retitled before the episode begins shooting.
Sarah’s neat waitress/smoke trick is actually also an illusion of post-production. The smoke was added as CGI in post-production, as were the balls on the pool table during Cameron’s hustling of Bob.
Anything extra cool that you noticed?
bucking up on props.
In FOX’s Behind the Scenes “Scenemakers” for this episode, we meet Scott Buckwald. Scott is our Props Master and weaponry expert. Hear what he has to say at the link below.
atomic al.
As you learned last night, nuclear power can be both very dangerous and very valuable. Why not spend some time learning how it works with our friend Atomic Al? Cameron sure enjoyed his presentation.
podcast.
Behold, the audio podcast for last night’s episode, Automatic for the People. This week’s edition features Executive Producer James Middleton and Co-Executive Producer/Writer Natalie Chaidez.
Update: Podcast apparently cuts out at the 8:00 minute mark. We’re working on fixing it…
202 Podcast
educate yourself.
Tonight our second episode, Automatic for the People, airs at 8PM/7PMc only on FOX.
Before you watch, educate yourself. What’s that title “Automatic for the People” referencing? Here are highlights of what wikipedia has to say:
“Automatic for the People is the eighth album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992. The album was a critical and commercial success, with three top 40 hits in the U.S. and UK. The album was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It was the band’s first widespread popular album in the UK - placing at number 1 for 4 non-consecutive weeks (1992 and 1993) - and on the album charts for 179 weeks. In America it reached number 2 and remained on the album charts for 75 weeks. The album’s extremely successful performance in Britain foreshadowed how the band would later become more popular in the UK than in their homeland.
The album name refers to the motto of Athens, Georgia eatery “Weaver D’s Delicious Fine Foods.” The photograph on the front cover is not related to the restaurant: it shows a sign on a motel in Miami, where part of the album was recorded. The album was also recorded in New Orleans.”
Awesome, but I wouldn’t waste my time listening for any R.E.M. in tonight’s episode. Our version of Automatic for the People is titled so for an entirely different reason…
in preparation.
Six Degrees of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Automatic for the People Guest Star Edition
Busy Philips makes her first appearance as “Kacy Cotton.” Busy was in Freaks and Geeks with Seth Rogen. Seth had a small part in Shrek the Third with John Cleese. John Cleese starred in A Fish Called Wanda with Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie Lee Curtis was in True Lies with the Governator.
“Automatic for the People” brings the return of Charley Dixon’s wife, “Michelle,” as played by Sonya Walger. Sonya currently also plays “Penny” on Lost, the girlfriend of “Desmond” played by Henry Ian Cusick. Last year Henry Ian Cusick was in the film, Hitman, with Timothy Olyphant. Timothy earlier acted in Rock Star with Mark Wahlberg of “Marky Mark” fame. Some people might remember that Wahlberg was featured in 1994’s Renaissance Man with Danny Devito, who, of course starred with Arnold in both Twins and Junior.
A Christmas Story legend, Zack Ward, zaps into Terminator tonight as “Wells.” Zack had a role in last year’s Transformers, a film that also starred Megan Fox. Megan can soon be seen in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People with Kirsten Dunst. Dunst is probably best known for her role as “Claudia” in Interview with a Vampire, playing opposite, among other people, Brad Pitt. Pitt and George Clooney have worked together numerous times, most recently in this past weekend’s Burn After Reading. And as much as they’d probably like us to forget it, George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger are both, in part, responsible for 1997’s Batman and Robin.
Now it’s your turn. How do you get to Arnold from Paul Schulze? Dean Norris? Debra Wilson Skelton?