Terminator Zero: Release date, cast, trailer, latest news on Netflix anime
Is Judgement Day coming? We look at the anime adaption of everyone's favourite sci-fi franchise as it takes us where Terminators have never gone before: Tokyo!
Everyone knows Judgement Day is coming, and Terminator is finally getting what it needs - an anime series!
The first season has eight episodes, and it looks to be taking the core mythology of the film franchise into a very different direction.
This means it's an original story with no Connors or Arnie cameos in sight. That said, the trailers pay homage to some of the best parts of the film franchise, from battles with an unstoppable Terminator to the nuclear fires scene which so upset Sarah Connor in T2: Judgement Day.
It’s an anime production created by Skydance, Production IG (of Ghost in the Shell, so you know it’s gonna look amazing!), Masashi Kudō and Mattson Tomlin.
So, what do we know and how connected is this going to be the movies?
Terminator Zero release date
It’s coming to Netflix globally on 29th August 2024!
Hardcore fans will recognise this date (on various years in different media) as Judgement Day, the day Skynet gains self-awareness and decides to destroy the human race!
Terminator Zero plot
Terminator Zero follows Malcom Lee, a scientist in 1997’s Tokyo, who is trying to create a way to stop Skynet with his own artificial intelligence project, named Kokoro.
A Terminator, one of Skynet’s cybernetic assassins from a possible future, arrives to kill him and his life is turned upside down - but he's not alone.
The resistance, humans from the future who are fighting to save themselves and change the future, send him a guardian — resistance fighter Eiko. With her, Lee must protect his work and his family, and try to stop Judgement Day from happening.
Terminator Zero cast
The series stars:
- Timothy Olyphant as the Terminator
- Rosario Dawson as Kokoro
- Sonoya Mizuno as Eiko
- André Holland as Malcom Lee
- Ann Dowd as the Prophet, the resistance’s mysterious leader
Is there a trailer for Terminator Zero?
Yes, we’ve got a teaser and a main trailer from Netflix. Check out the main clip below.
Terminator Zero is coming to Netflix globally on 29th August 2024!
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Authors
Asha Bardon cut their teeth as a journalist in the mid 2000s, specialising in everything Japan, from tech and games to culture and anime. They’ve written for NEO, SFX, Newtype USA, ImagineFX, every official gaming magazine going, AOL and TenTonHammer.com amongst many others. In 2017, they moved into the world of manga adaption for an American publisher and now has over eighty published volumes under their belt. Asha has recently returned to journalism after completing two Masters degrees, one in Classics and a second in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies.
