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LOCATION: Warner Bros.

THE SKINNY: Last night, the Warner Bros. Home Video division held a special event to discuss it’s upcoming 85th Anniversary celebration of the studio, trotting out such guests as Warren Beatty and Frank Sinatra’s children to highlight the very cool re-releases and restorations on the horizon. (Click Here for the full story).

Director McG (the forthcoming TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS) was also on hand, and not only did he speak to iF about the forthcoming science-fiction sequel (Click Here for full story), he also spoke briefly to iF about two of this TV shows he executive producers – The CW’s SUPERNATURAL and NBC’s CHUCK.

For SUPERNATURAL, there were rumors that during its current third season that Jason Voorhees might make an appearance, but months ago, that seemed to be a lost cause due to rights issues with New Line Cinemas. When pressed about this, McG teased that there’s still more to the story, but he isn’t at liberty to discuss.

"It’s a giant surprise in relation that, so you have to stay tuned for that," says McG who says that the CW Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff would kill him if he spoke further. "I can’t even talk about that. That show, we go to such lengths to hold on to the mythology and be respectful of the secrets and twists and turns. And [creator Eric] Kripke has that all figured out and it’s going to surprise you."

As for CHUCK, the last two one-hour episodes that aired a couple weeks ago, largely ignored the big bomb revealed during its Christmas episode that the character of Chuck (Zachary Levi), who harbors all the governments secrets in his head (it’s called the Intersect), may soon be terminated because a new intersect is being created. He says that mythology would come back into play, but the last two episodes were designed more to build up the character dynamics, specifically that of Alec Baldwin’s hard-nosed undercover government agent Casey.

"We wanted to get involved in Casey’s back story and what he’s like as a leading man, and we wanted to have some fun there, but also keep the balance of the show and the action-intrigue component but also the fundamental humanity of these nitwits that are over their heads," says McG. "Obviously what Josh Gomez is doing, what Zach Levi is doing, they do a good job bringing the comedic energy and we rely on Baldwin and Yvonne [Strahovski] to bring the physicality and proficiency to a very different world."

And if the writer’s strike is resolved, and the season continues, will this new intersect play a big part? McG says yes.

"That’s the dominant idea that will be serviced in the balance of the season," concludes McG.

 

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