September 30th, 2008 -- Written by Rodney
Current Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles star Thomas Dekker is looking to round out his leading man status with a starring role in the upcoming Fame reboot. We get wind of his musical desires from the whistling caves of Yahoo:
Thomas Dekker, the star of Fox’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” is in talks to take a lead role in MGM’s remake of the 1980 musical “Fame.”Dekker is gunning to play Marco, a working-class kid with some gnarly acting chops who is competing with thousands of hopefuls to get into and survive an elite New York public high school for the arts. Dekker started acting at age 6 and comes from a musical family. He sang on the soundtracks of several films in the animated “Land Before Time” video series and has an album, “Psyanotic,” on iTunes.
Fighting Terminators and singing songs of inspiration? Is this young man trying to walk in the steps of Swayze, the warrior dancer before him? I certainly hope so, and who can blame him. You will be hard pressed to find a better role model in america today superior to Swayze.
I am not personally pumped for the Fame remake, nor do I watch the Sarah Connor Chronicles. For those of you that are fans of the show - what are your thoughts on this news?
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I could care less about the Fame remake, but this guy is absolutely horrible as John Connor. Half the time he looks like a girl. Not convincing at all as Connor. He is the main reason I may give the show up. Would have already, but Glau is keeping me around :)
His goals conflict with my expectations.
I think Dekker is ok as John Connor. To be honest, I am so busy staring at Lena Headey and Summer Glau that I hardly notice his persona.
Eventually the writers will have to toughen his character up a bit, he doesnt really partake in the action but that cant last forever. In this second season the writers have given him more intense scenes but they seem to want to keep him a teen forever, I dont think thats his fault. I think the time-line is progressing along nicely and the writing has been really good.
I hope the show makes a third season!