“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” Should Be A Novel Series
With the future of the Terminator film franchise in question, it’s worth considering other options that would continue the multiple storylines within the canon without needing budgets that rival the deficits of some sovereign nations – especially for the fantastically written and wantonly canceled “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” television series.
In order to avoid spending hundreds of millions of dollars in producing a piece of entertainment within the Terminatorverse, the only real solution is to look to books, specifically novels, in order to placate the fanbase. There are already a handful of novels scattered throughout the timeline, with varying degrees of success, but it’s high time that TTSCC be added to the list: starting with a trilogy of novels to cover what happened over the course of the show, it’s a process that could continue indefinitely.
Imagine if the brilliance that was John, Cameron, Sarah, Derek, John Henry / Cromartie, James Ellison, and Catherine Weaver could be successfully translated to the written word and given lives of their own – Summer Glau would live forever in her quirky, attractive, robot self inside the reader’s head. Timothy Zahn did a decent job with the prequel novel to McG’s latest Terminator movie, despite some of it’s obvious plot failings, and could prove to be the pen that would drive the novelization, and continuation, of TTSCC.
To be fair, moving a series from the screen to the printed page isn’t always successful or even worth the cost of its publishing, as evidenced by some of the attempts with Star Wars, but the fanbase of TTSCC should be dedicated, and literate, enough to at least attempt reading a novelization of one of the fan favorites of the canon. With McG’s involvement in any further Terminator movies in question and no other director, or movie studio, in sight, it’s time to consider other options that have a better chance of being deep, insightful, and utterly fantastic.
Not to mention profitable.
Kyle can be found on his blog, on Facebook, via email, or on Twitter.
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Great idea Kyle, anything to keep them alive for the little ones. If you have a second, my favorite book is Neuromancer (I have read it over a hundred times, the only book I read more than once, and still read it once a year) Q.- Do you think it will ever be a movie? Just in case you never heard of it, it is almost 26 yrs. old now, just reading the wiki page is a thrill itself!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
Neuromancer is actually one of the first scifi books I read, and I’ve never looked back – I’m a big fan of people like Gibson, Herbert, Orson Scott Card, Pullman, McDevitt, Stross, etc.
They’ve been trying to make a movie out of Neuromancer for the last twenty years and never did it. But the technology is finally in place to do it properly, and so we might have hope… especially in the modern “use someone else’s ideas” climate of Hollywood.
–Kyle
p.s. TTSCC in novels wouldn’t be just “for the little ones” – it’d be for everyone!
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