Netflix’s upcoming anime series Terminator Zero has a grand cast and an in-demand writer, but its creators are sure keeping their cards close to the chest. The first teaser for the show has arrived, and it’s barely a minute of vague Terminator action, with a brief monologue from a non-robot character who’s all that stands between “you” and the killer robots. Or so she says.
“This isn’t what you think it is,” the trailer begins, before acting like exactly what we think it is: Killer robot! Dark future! Here’s the synopsis:
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.
It’s a bit odd that this soldier, who seems to be a very important character, doesn’t rate a name. Even Tudum’s article about the teaser refrains from naming her, but presumably she’s Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno), described as “a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop Malcolm from launching Kokoro.”
André Holland voices Malcom; Rosario Dawson is the AI system, Kokoro; and Timothy Olyphant is the Terminator himself. Terminator Zero is created by Mattson Tomlin (The Batman II). It arrives on Netflix on Judgment Day—August 29th, in case you forgot.
