Yay! We finally have our first look at the Terminator anime series as well as a title for it.
Back in 2021 (man, time flies), we learned that The Batman writer Mattson Tomlin was writing a Terminator anime series, at which time he said: “Anyone who knows my writing knows I believe in taking big swings and going for the heart. I’m honored that Netflix and Skydance have given me the opportunity to approach Terminator in a way that breaks conventions, subverts expectations and has real guts.”
And that was really all we knew… until now.
The series is officially called Terminator: Zero and it will bring the Terminator back to the horror of the first movie, rather than the action movie franchise it became with later installments.
“There’s a completely valid version of the Terminator franchise where the Terminator is synonymous with Jason and Freddy, where he is this unrelenting serial killer. There’s a little bit of Friday the 13th in here. There’s a little bit of Michael Myers in here,” Tomlin has said in a new interview.
The series, which looks great – new looks at the top and bottom of the page – will be canon to the movies but will not feature anyone from the Connor family who have been the central point of the franchise since James Cameron first brought it to life in 1984.
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Oh, and we have an official synopsis:
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.
I love the Terminator series even though pretty much everything has disappointed since 1992’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but for some reason, I always hold out hope that the next story will be a winner… possibly because I read a lot of the Dark Horse comics when I was a kid and some of those stories were amazing and have stuck with me to this day, so I know that, in a world of time-travelling unstoppable killing machines constantly trying to protect their own existence, there’s a wealth of stories worth telling. Hopefully this is one of them.
Thoughts?
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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