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[fembuck]

Lena Headey is Sarah Connor!



Lena Headey (Imagine Me & You) has landed the plum leading role in the Fox pilot "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," reports Variety.

The project, from Warner Bros. TV, continues the "Terminator" movie franchise storyline by focusing on Sarah and her 15-year-old son John, as they fight attackers from the future in present-day Los Angeles.

Headey takes over the role made famous by Linda Hamilton in the first two "Terminator" films. Josh Friedman will write and David Nutter is set to direct the pilot.
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Please, please, please do not let this show go the way of Ultra. Lena Headey as Butchy McFabulous Sarah Connor is like a dream come true. If it couldn't be Linda Hamilton I will totally take Lena (LH and LH, it was meant to be). 2007 is shaping up to be a good year for kick-ass females in sci-fi series. My only worry is that it's on Fox, which means it will be brilliant, I will love it, but it won't be getting a bajillion viewers after like 8 episodes and will get cancelled (*flips Fox the bird*).

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and thought, "it will only kick ass if they can find someone who can rock Sarah like Linda did."

Me too. Cause Linda Hamilton totally ruled, pwning everything in sight as Sarah, but I'm very pleased with the casting of Lena "nod of death" Headey (yeah, I've been watching the "300" trailer too much, lol).

And.. well, they have. My only question, will she bulk up?

I doubt it, at least not to the degree that Hamilton did for T2 because that would be a hell of physique to maintain if the series goes on for seasons, but a little more arm definition would be nice and probably not too taxing. After all Sarah doesn't have superpowers like Buffy, or Max to explain why a skinny woman kicks so much ass.