Lights, camera, action – wow! Henry Thomas, Summer Glau, Eric Balfour and lots of other stellar talents are part of a Western movie being filmed this week in nearby Boerne.

Called “The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy,” the film from Flatiron Pictures is written and directed by Tanner Beard and relates the adventures of three outlaws on the run in 1876.

I spoke with producer Suzanne Weinert, who filled me in on details.

In their ride across Texas, the men — played by Balfour (”24,” “Six Feet Under”), Beard and Lou Taylor Pucci — come across some famous characters: John St. Helen (reputed to be the alias of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth); Doc Holliday and Jesse James.

Enchanted Springs Ranch — a movie set, working ranch and Wild West tourist attraction in Boerne — has been used since Sunday to portray the Texas town of Granbury. That’s where actor Booth is rumored to have escaped to under the name of St. Helen.

S.A. native Thomas (”E.T.,” “Psycho IV,” “Gangs of New York”) plays St. Helen.

According to Weinert, Glau (”Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and “Firefly”), also of San Antonio, is portraying Maggie Moon, a member of a family that the outlaws encounter. Michael Taber, a cute newcomer from Boerne, plays her younger brother.

Weinert said filming at Enchanted Springs Ranch — which she described as a wonderful shooting location — has been a joy, but likely would cease today.

However, the cast and crew soon will return to Texas for more filming — in Granbury and Austin. In a fun turn of events, the real Granbury will double for Dallas.

Somebody from the Dollhouse-world just let me Summer is staying on Dollhouse as a reoccuring. As we originally announced a month or so ago to the interwebs, she was signed to just two episodes then.

Summer is currently in episodes 5, 6 and 7 (production order).

FYI: Summer will be in the following episodes:

2×05 – The Public Eye
2×06 – The Left Hand
2×07 – Meet Jane Doe

Lifetime Movie Network is embarking on “Deadly Honeymoon,” greenlighting an original movie starring “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” alumna Summer Glau.

Chris Carmack (”Drop Dead Diva”) and Zoe McLellan (”Dirty Sexy Money”) co-star in the film inspired by the real-life mysterious disappearance of groom George Allen Smith.

“Deadly Honeymoon” follows two young newlyweds, Lindsey (Glau) and Trevor Forrest (Carmack), as they embark on their 10-day honeymoon cruise. But the dream vacation devolves into a night of wild partying, infidelity and strange encounters with a group of Eastern European passengers, and the next morning, Trevor is missing, presumed to have fallen overboard to his death. However, one investigator (McLellan) begins to question if his death really was an accident.

Paul Shapiro is directing from a script by Ron McGee Michael Jacobs, Fernando Szew, Ricardo Galindez and Roy Trice are executive producing. Filming is slated to begin in October for a 2010 premiere.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Question: With Sarah Connor Chronicles canceled, please tell me there is a possibility of Summer Glau making an appearance on Dollhouse! –Jenn
Ausiello: The noise you’re about to hear is the sound of the Whedonverse exploding. Joss confirms to me exclusively that, well, he’s one step head of you. “If anybody thinks [bringing Summer onto Dollhouse] hasn’t occurred to me already then they have not met me,” he says. “I mentioned it to her before [SCC] was canceled. I was like, ‘You know, we should get you in the ‘house.’ But first we have to come up with something that works.” And casting her as a doll would not work, insists Whedon. “Summer would be perfect to play an active, but she’s done that [type of role] a lot,” he says. “I’d rather see her play someone who talks too much. The most fun I have is when I get somebody who’s good and comfortable at doing something, and then I make them do something else. Summer said to me, ‘I would like to play a normal girl before I die of extreme old age.’”

Source: EW

As a star of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and a veteran of Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity, Summer Glau is accustomed to being recognized in public by enthusiastic and devoted fanboys.

On March 9, art will imitate life (or real life will intersect with art) when Glau crosses network boundaries to guest star as herself on CBS’ Big Bang Theory.

In the episode, airing on March 9, the brilliantly geeky heroes of Big Bang Theory run into Summer Glau on a train and, as one might imagine, they’re pretty excited about the chance for celebrity interaction.

Meeting with reporters before the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles panel at San Francisco’s WonderCon, HitFix asked Glau about her foray into sitcom work and how Fictional Summer Glau differs from Real Life Summer Glau.

“They’re very different,” Glau laughed. “I think that I was playing myself, but I was trying to be funny, they tried to make me funny. I was nervous, because it’s supposed to be about how I respond to people who know my work as Cameron, so I was concerned about how people might perceive that. But I was honored to work with such talented actors.”

A FOX star going on CBS to effectively plug her role on said FOX show seems a little unusual, but both Big Bang Theory and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are Warner Brothers TV productions (and CBS probably wouldn’t figure T:SCC is much of a threat to its Friday supremacy).

“Bill Prady and I are friends,” added Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles creator Josh Friedman. “He’d done a couple little shout-outs over the last season, done one or two things. When I talked to him, he said, ‘Do you think Summer would want to play Summer?’ The script was really funny and the idea was really funny. I was at the read-through and I wanted to go when they were actually shooting, but I thought it would be a little weird. I didn’t want to be like the protective parent, the stage dad or something.”

Although Glau’s spot-on dead-pan delivery has generated comedy on her previous TV work, this was a different kind of experience.

“When you do drama, you try different things — Not my [Terminator] character, because I play a robot — you come in… and something might happen on one take that you didn’t expect and you just go with it and the scene flows with it,” she noted. “When you do comedy, it’s so precise. Every word can change whether it’s funny or not. I didn’t realize that. I had no idea. Every word that I would say, sometimes they would say, ‘Say it going up. Say it going down. Say it fast. Say it slow.’ That’s how specific it was.”

After reading the script, Friedman wasn’t worried about how the show would depict Glau and reflect on how she actually is.

“It was very respectful, I think of Summer, of her words,” he said. “Those characters make fun of each other all the time… She doesn’t want to be seen as someone who if you were a fan and came up to to Summer on a train and asked her a question, that she would mock you. That’s not Summer. She’s would never do that.”

Glau quickly added, “Yeah. I would never do that. So I was nervous, I was like ‘It feels like I’m being mean.’”

So will the Big Bang Theory actually encourage people to come up to Glau whenever they see her in public?

“Parts of it. I think things go wrong,” Glau said with a smile. “It starts out like it might be good and then things come apart. I hope it will be funny. I enjoyed it a lot.”

Glau’s Big Bang Theory episode airs on Monday, March 9.

Source: HitFlix

It’s pure nerd-vana on the March 9 episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory when Summer Glau — butt-kicking Cameron on Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — guest-stars as herself. And this photo is a first look at what is ostensibly the gang’s reaction to stumbling upon (perhaps literally) the sci-fi siren.

How do Leonard, Sheldon et al come to be within sniffing distance of the brunette beauty? The unlikely, would-be encounter comes to pass as the boys trek to a sci-fi convention, only to realize that one of its biggest draws is riding the same train as them.

Also appearing in the sweeps episode — and giving TV’s “fourth wall” an equally fun nudge — is Nobel Laureate Dr. George Smoot, aka the father of the Big Bang Theory of Creation. But in all fairness, his abs don’t look as good as Summer’s.

Source: TV Guide

This has been a big week for The Big Bang Theory’s nerd herd. First, they score their best ratings ever, and now they’re getting to rub elbows with frakkin’ Summer Glau!

The Sarah Connor Chronicles siren will play herself in the March 9 episode, the set-up of which already has me ROFWLing: A train trip to San  Francisco takes a major detour when Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz, and Raj discover that their favorite sci-fi actress in all the land is on board. But the fanboy frenzy quickly gives way to a heated mass debate (tee-hee) when they realize one of them will have to approach her — but who?

It’s not too difficult to figure out how this cheeky cross-over came about, provided you know this little detail: The Big Bang Theory and Sarah Connor Chronicles (which returns this Friday) are both produced by Warner Bros.

Source: EW

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