At ANIME NYC this past weekend, Netflix released a red band trailer for its upcoming anime installment in the Terminator franchise, Terminator Zero. The series stars Sonoya Mizuno as Eiko the resistance fighter; Rosario Dawson as Kokoro, an advanced AI; André Holland as computer genius Malcom Lee; Ann Dowd as the philosophical guide the Prophet, and Timothy Olyphant as the Terminator.
The eight-episode series streams August 29 on Netflix.
The project is produced and animated in partnership with Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, B: The Beginning). Skydance executive produces the show that is part of the Terminator universe but centers on new characters.
The series follows a soldier, caught between the future and the past, after being sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee who’s working to launch a new AI system designed to compete with Skynet’s impending …