Netflix today dropped the teaser trailer for the animated series Terminator Zero, debuting Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon) as the voice of Eiko, the resistance fighter sent back in time to stop Skynet’s attack on humanity. Additional voice cast includes Timothy Olyphant (Santa Clarita Diet) as Terminator, André Holland (Moonlight) as Malcolm Lee, Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka) as Koroko, and Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) as The Prophet.
The eight-episode series premieres August 29th on Netflix and will be part of the Terminator universe but centered around new characters. Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II) serves as Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer.
The Terminator Zero synopsis 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.”
“I was looking at the franchise and the first two movies in particular,” Tomlin told Tudum. “And why are we still talking about this franchise 40 years later? You strip away killer robots, you strip away Judgment Day, what do you have left? You have stories about families.”
Watch the teaser below.
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