Netflix: This cult sci-fi movie is becoming an animated series, and it looks like this

The Terminator saga returns… on Netflix this time and in an animated version! As the platform says, Judgment Day is coming: TERMINATOR: ZERO will debut online on August 29 with an eight-episode first season.

Produced by Skydance, the series has been signed by Mattson Tomlin, Matt Reeves’ Batman (2022) co-star Robert Pattinson, and animated by Japanese animation studio Production IG, which has already worked on the series. A ghost in a shell In particular, under the supervision of Makashi Kudo.

Terminator: Zero Therefore, it will arrive in 2024, a symbolic date for the franchise, which was born exactly 40 years ago in the cinema with James Cameron’s iconic Terminator, carried by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn.

Four decades later, the saga – which has seen its ups and downs over time – is getting ready to be reborn this time on the small screen, in a brand new animated form that could appeal to several generations of viewers and reignite its success.

Ambitious, the series takes place in 2022.While a war raged for decades between the few surviving humans and the endless army of machines. Indeed, in 1997, an AI known as Skynet became aware of itself and began a war against humanity.“, we read in the synopsis.

“Caught between the future and this past, a soldier is sent back in time to change the fate of humanity. He arrives in 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee, who is working to launch a new artificial intelligence system designed to rival Skynet’s impending attack on humanity. As Malcolm explores the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by a ruthless killer from the future who changes the fate of his three children forever.“This is encouraging!

TERMINATOR: ZERO will debut on Netflix on August 29, 2024.