The platform Netflix revealed the first details of the upcoming original anime based on the franchise “Terminator“, produced by Skydance Animation in collaboration with the studios Production GI. This new series will be titled “Terminator Zero” and is scheduled to premiere on August 29th in the platform’s global catalog.

The statement also revealed that this series will have a total of eight episodes and that, although it is part of the “Terminator” universe, it focuses on completely new characters. It should be noted that Netflix announced the series in 2021, but only now have the first official details been revealed.

The rights holders of the “Terminator” franchise planned a series of shorts created by prominent European and Japanese “auteurs” in 2008, but the project did not debut as planned. “Terminator” would focus on Judgment Day, the pivotal day in the multiple plotlines of the “Terminator” franchise, in which Skynet’s defense system launches nuclear weapons that would destroy much of humanity. The iconic T-800 robot is a time-traveling weapon of Skynet and has been both an antagonist and protagonist in various “Terminator” projects since the first film in 1984.

In fact, the T-800 made an official and authorized cameo in the anime series “Doraemon” in June 2009. The anime's main character, Doraemon, is a time-traveling robot cat from the future, and the "dream showdown" was described in the Japanese press as a showdown between American and Japanese robots.

Production team

• Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II) is the showrunner of this project, the executive producer and the person responsible for writing and supervising the scripts.
• David Ellison, Dana Goldberg Yes Dom Granger of Skydance Animationlike this Masashi Kudoare responsible for project management in studies Production GI.

Terminator Zero Synopsis

2022: A future war has been raging for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. 1997: The AI known as Skynet gains self-awareness and begins its war against humanity.

Trapped between the future and this past is a soldier sent to the past to change the fate of humanity. He arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee, who is working to launch a new AI system designed to counter Skynet's impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is pursued by a ruthless assassin from the future who forever alters the fate of his three children.

Source: Official Twitter Account