‘Terminator Zero’ Trailer: First Look At Netflix Animated Franchise Reboot

“This isn’t what you think it is. You can’t see it yet. But you’ve been on a collision course your entire life. There is no going back. Not really. It will never…never…stop.” So begins the first trailer for Terminator Zero, Netflix‘s upcoming animated franchise reboot, with a voiceover narrated by resistance fighter Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno).

Hailing 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.

Premiering August 29 on Netflix, Terminator Zero takes place across two timelines, “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 (Mizuno) sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. She arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee (André Holland) who works to launch a new AI system (Rosario Dawson) 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, reads Netflix’s synopsis.

The series comes from Mattson Tomlin, a writer on The Batman II, who serves as showrunner. He will exec produce alongside Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger. Masashi Kudo is director and Production IG is the animation studio.

Check out the trailer above.