Today, Netflix has announced the global premiere date and first-look images for Terminator Zero, bringing the dark world of James Cameron's 1980s sci-fi action franchise to animation. The eight-episode series, which revolves around new characters in the Terminator universe, is scheduled to premiere globally on August 29, 2024.
You can check out the first-look images for Terminator Zero in the image gallery below:
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Terminator Zero is created and executive produced by Mattson Tomlin (The Batman II, Project Power), who also serves as the anime's showrunner. The series was directed by Japanese animator Masashi Kudo. Animation studio Production I.G., who's known for other popular science fiction anime such as Ghost in the Shell and Psycho-Pass, is producing the animation.
What is Terminator Zero about?
The central theme of the Terminator franchise has always been the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence known as Skynet, and we can expect the same themes of time travel and a relentless assassin in Terminator Zero. Netflix shared an official synopsis for Terminator Zero that reads:
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 is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children.
Terminator Zero is the first anime in the franchise that currently has six movies, television series, video games, web shows, and comic books. The sci-fi movie series started with James Cameron's 1984 action-packed blockbuster The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin sent back in time to assassinate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton).
