Casting Couch: Hero Thomas Dekker to "Chronicle" John Connor

Cast the cheerleader's friend, save the world.

Looks like Heroes' Claire may just need a new confidant. Actor Thomas Dekker, who plays Zach on Heroes, has just been cast as 15-year-old John Connor in FOX's pilot for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, from Warner Bros. Television.

Dekker joins the previously cast Lena Headey, who will portray John's kick-ass momma Sarah Connor in the pilot, which follows the adventures of the single mom and her saviour-to-humanity-to-be after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. (For the uninitiated, their roles were originally played by Edward Furlong and Linda Hamilton.)

Rumor has it that the troika of warriors that comprise a new take on the, heh, nuclear family in the pilot has been fully cast: by a certain actress who has herself appeared on two cult genre television series. Let the guessing begin.