Netflix has released the Terminator Zero trailer which is a new eight-episode Anime series coming to the streaming service from Mattson Tomlin who co-wrote with Matt Reeves The Batman movies.
The video description offers: From Skydance, Production I.G, Masashi Kudō and Mattson Tomlin comes one of the most anticipated anime series of the year, Terminator Zero. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson, Sonoya Mizuno, André Holland & Ann Dowd – Terminator Zero premieres on August 29th (Judgement Day) only on Netflix.
What is Terminator Zero about?
The Anime is a part of the Terminator universe but will center on characters we haven’t met yet.
2022: A future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gained self-awareness and began its war against humanity.
Caught between the future and this past is a soldier sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who works to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he’s hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future, which forever alters the fate of his three children.
Timothy Olyphant voices the Terminator.
Rosario Dawson voices Kokoro: An advanced AI and Japan’s answer to Skynet, if brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power as Skynet.
André Holland voices Malcolm Lee: A genius computer programmer.
Sonoya Mizuno voices Eiko, a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop Malcolm from launching Kokoro.
Ann Dowd voices The Prophet: In the future, The Prophet is the philosophical guide for the human resistance, a light shepherding survivors in the darkness of the unknown future ahead.
Watch the trailer:
