On Aug. 29, 1997, everything changes. That’s the stark warning we’re presented with in the teaser for Terminator Zero, the eight-episode anime series coming to Netflix on Aug. 29, 2024, featuring the voice of Timothy Olyphant as the Terminator.

In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led highest grossing film of 1991, it’s revealed that Aug. 29, 1997 is the date that the artificial intelligence network known as Skynet becomes self-aware and usurps its human masters, leading to an all-out war between humanity and machines. Encompassing flesh-and-blood resistance fighters and time-traveling cyborgs, this battle spans across the last decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st.

Terminator Zero will be part of the Terminator universe but will center on characters we haven’t met yet. Keep reading if you want to live … or if you want to know everything there is to know so far about Terminator Zero.

What is the Terminator Zero anime series about?

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’s hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future, which forever alters the fate of his three children.

Who’s in the Terminator Zero voice cast?

Timothy Olyphant will voice the Terminator, and some things about it haven’t changed. The Terminator is still out there. It still can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you’re dead.

Check back for more casting updates, both human and cyborg.

Who are the creators of the anime series Terminator Zero?

The upcoming anime series will be executive produced by Skydance, Japan animation studio Production I.G., and creator Mattson Tomlin. Tomlin, who’ll serve as the showrunner and writer for the series, previously wrote Project Power (starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) for Netflix and is currently writing The Batman II.

“Anyone who knows my writing knows I believe in taking big swings and going for the heart,” Tomlin said in 2021. “I’m honored that Netflix and Skydance have given me the opportunity to approach Terminator in a way that breaks conventions, subverts expectations, and has real guts.”

Where can I get a first look at the anime series Terminator Zero?  

Check out the above first look photos from Terminator Zero.

When is Terminator Zero the anime series coming out?

As the teaser reminds us, there’s no fate but what we make for ourselves. Prepare for your fate when Terminator Zero arrives on the anniversary of Judgment Day, Aug. 29.

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