Terminator Zero – Check out some images from the new anime which premieres on Judgment Day

Netflix has released these new images from Terminator Zero, which premieres globally on 29th August 2024. That date was Judgement Day in 1997!

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.

The anime hails from Japanese animation studio Production IG (Ghost in the Shell). The eight-episode series will be part of the Terminator universe but will center around new characters. It will be the first-ever iteration of the franchise to be animated.

Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II) is the showrunner and writer, while Masashi Kudo directs.