The Terminator Zero anime series has received a full official trailer ahead of its August 29 Netflix premiere.
The trailer delivers new footage of scientist Malcolm Lee, the target of the AI Skynet, and Eiko, the soldier sent from the future to protect him from assassination.
Terminator Zero will have eight episodes and is described as being a “part of the Terminator universe,” which began with the classic 1984 science fiction action film The Terminator (recent sequels have caused the franchise’s continuity to become muddled). The anime’s premise is described as:
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 the 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.
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Staff
• Director: Masashi Kudo (Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War character designer, Chain Chronicle: Haecceitas no Hikari and Re-Kan! director)
• Showrunner, executive producer, and writer: Mattson Tomlin (Project Power and the upcoming The Batman II screenwriter)
• Executive Producers: Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger
• Animation Studio: Production IG
Cast (English)
• Timothy Olyphant as the Terminator
• André Holland as Malcolm Lee
• Rosario Dawson as Eiko
• Ann Dowd as The Prophet
• Sonoya Mizuno as Kokoro
Cast (Japanese)
• Yasuhiro Mamiya as the Terminator
• Yuya Uchida as Malcolm
• Toa Yukinari as Eiko
• Atsumi Tanezaki as Kokoro
• Saori Hayami as Misaki
• Hiro Shimono as Kenta
• Shizuka Ishigami as Hiro
• Miyuki Sato as Reika
Source: Press release
