Judgment Day is almost here as the trailer for the Netflix animated series Terminator Zero arrives. Have a gander within.
It was only a matter of days ago that we learned that Netflix’s upcoming animated series, Terminator Zero, aims to recapture the dark, slasher movie vibes of 1984’s The Terminator. That, it turns out, was preparing the way for the show’s debut trailer, which you can find below these very words.
As we heard last week, Terminator Zero takes place after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and does what most of us did and pretends that all the films that came afterwards didn’t happen. Featuring a starry voice cast including Sonoya Mizuno (House Of The Dragon), Ann Dowd, Timothy Olyphant and Rosario Dawson, the show flips between an alternate reality 1997 and 2022, when Skynet is about to unleash its AI-driven apocalypse, dubbed Judgment Day (sic) on humanity. Mizuno plays the resistance fighter Eiko, who’s sent back from 2022 to prevent the nightmare from happening.
Here’s a synopsis, if you’re a fan of story descriptions in italics:
‘Caught between the future and the past is a soldier (voiced by Sonoya Mizuno) sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee (André Holland) who works to launch a new AI system (Rosario Dawson) 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 has been animated by Production I.G., the Japanese animation studio famous for, among other things, 1995’s Ghost In The Shell and the Origin Of O-Ren animated segment in Kill Bill Volume 1. As you can see from the trailer (flagged to us by TheWrap), it looks appropriately dark and Terminator-like.
Terminator Zero is due to make its Netflix debut on the 29th August 2024 – a date that will have a particular resonance for fans of the franchise.
