Variety reports that Skydance Prods. and Annapurna Pictures — the shingles behind Paramount’s 2015 Terminator reboot — have teamed to develop a fresh “Terminator” television series, hiring X-Men: First Class (the only good X-Men movie!) scribes Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller to write and exec produce!
The project is said to follow a critical moment from the first Terminator film — where the film’s story goes one way, the upcoming television show will take that same moment in a completely different direction. Skydance and Annapurna expect the new “Terminator” TV series and rebooted Terminator film franchise to have intersecting narratives, as well.
Megan Ellison of Annapurna will produce the “Terminator” TV series with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross of Skydance. Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier are on board as exec producers.
This won’t be the first time that “Terminator” has received the small screen treatment. “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” a spinoff from the film franchise, aired on Fox for two seasons, from 2008-2009. Both Stentz and Miller worked on the drama as producers and scribes.