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Netflix has released a trailer for its new Terminator anime series from Skydance, Production I.G, Masashi Kudō and Mattson Tomlin. Take a look:
Starring the voices of Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson, Sonoya Mizuno, André Holland and Ann Dowd, Terminator: Zero concerns scientist Malcolm Lee (the world’s oldest-looking 32-year old man) after developing an AI to compete with Skynet. Since this is a Terminator story, “Lee finds himself and his three children pursued by an unknown robot assassin.” Luckily, “a mysterious soldier from the year 2022 has been sent to protect him.”
While the trailer doesn’t reveal too much, no one could claim it doesn’t look like another entry in the Terminator franchise. Androids missing half their faces, nuclear armageddon, a cool-looking heroine– it’s all here. That said, the trailer does include the striking new image of a T-800 wearing a parka– as well as a smaller cave search-and-rescue robot dressed in a yellow rain slicker. Caves are very moist, so it could absolutely use something to protect its inner workings from condensation and seepage. I love that.
Anyway, as the trailer promises “this isn’t what you think it is,” I’m sure its only meant to present a false sense of familiarity before pulling the rug out from under us with a brand-new, subversive take on some very familiar material. However, as the trailer also states, “there’s no going back–not really.” So who’s to say yet?
Come what may, the series premieres this August 29th (that’s Judgement Day, of course, according to Terminator 2) only on Netflix.
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