Netflix has published a fresh look at Terminator Zero, its new eight-episode anime series from Skydance, Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell), and creator Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II), and with it comes a confirmation that the show will begin streaming this year on August 29—a date that Terminator fans might recognize as being Judgment Day, the day where Skynet becomes self-aware and nukes the planet. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the star behind all five Terminator movies, does not appear to have a role in this project, as the series will center on characters that audiences haven’t met yet.
A synopsis for the new anime:
- “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.”
New images from Netflix:
Netflix on Judgment Day:
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the highest grossing film of 1991, it’s revealed that Aug. 29, 1997 is the date that the artificial intelligence network known as Skynet becomes self-aware and usurps its human masters, leading to an all-out war between humanity and machines. Encompassing flesh-and-blood resistance fighters and time-traveling cyborgs, this battle spans across the last decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st.