Terminator Zero’s release date hasn’t been chosen by chance: the creators of the animated versions of Ghost in the Shell will unleash James Cameron’s apocalypse in anime form next August 29ththe same day as the day of judgment according to the saga itself. What caught us off guard is how good this project was going to look in its first official trailer.
Netflix has unleashed the first taste of the upcoming anime co-produced by Skydance and Production IG that will follow the path of the film saga, making clear both the aesthetics and the tone that we will see on screen. The action and explosions are more than guaranteed, and although, as we will see, there will be twists and a change of roles compared to what we saw in the films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the premise already points the way.
What is Terminator Zero about? To begin with, we return to the year 1997. Skynet started a war and began to exterminate humanity after taking control of the machines. The dreaded day of judgment was inevitable, but there is still room to save humanity.
From Japan, Malcolm Lee (played by André Holland) is about to create Key (voiced by Rosario Dawson) a new Artificial Intelligence that hopes to fight fire with fire and emerge victorious. This inevitably puts him in the crosshairs of a threat capable of sending killer cyborgs from the future.
Just at that critical point appears Nope (Sonoya Mizuno, who we saw in House of the Dragon), a resistance fighter sent from the year 2022 with the objective of protecting him and preventing him from making an even bigger mistake: activating Kokoro. A relatively simple procedure under normal circumstances, but as shown in the trailer there is a third axis on which the story revolves: the Skynet of the future has also sent your own Terminator (Timothy Olyphant) and not exactly to convince or give speeches.
Terminator Zero It was announced during Geeked Week’ 23 and the project is in very good hands: director Masashi Kudo (to whom we owe the anime of Bleach) will put all the meat on the grill and the adaptation of the original material is in charge of Mattson Tomlin (The Batman II), with Production IG putting its talent to work redrawing the universe imagined by James Cameron in anime style.
We know that Terminator Zero consists of a total of eight episodes and also that the great appeal of the project is that fans discover places, characters and transcendent stories from the universe of the saga that had not yet been explored. Perhaps more films have been made than necessary, but from what we have seen, they have the necessary ingredients to surprise; Netflix is on a roll with its adaptations and that, added to this, has earned them the benefit of the doubt. Now it’s time to wait for the day of judgment!
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