Netflix has announced that Mandalorian star Timothy Olyphant will voice the Terminator in the upcoming anime series Terminator Zero.
This is an interesting choice as the Terminator is most famously voiced by Arnold Schwarzenegger, so it’s interesting from the get-go that they’re going in a ne, fresh direction with this.
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.
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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-traveling 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 on Olyphant as the Terminator, I want to hear them all…
Excited to announce that Timothy Olyphant will voice The Terminator in Terminator Zero, premiering August 29 a.k.a Judgment Day! #NextOnNetflix pic.twitter.com/8vztNBUxDG
— Netflix (@netflix) June 6, 2024
Check out the new images from the series:
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