Netflix has launched some new details about its upcoming Terminator anime sequence, now formally christened Terminator Zero. Alongside a batch of superior first-look photographs, we even have the sequence’ official launch date and a short synopsis of its story. Right here’s all the things we learn about Terminator Zero.

When will Terminator Zero be launched?

Barring any final-hour delays, Terminator Zero will likely be launched on August 29, 2024. It’s a date with an attention-grabbing in-universe tie-in, too. Inside the Terminator franchise, August 29, 1997, is “Judgement Day,” the day the factitious intelligence community often called Skynet is prophesized to realize sentience and unleash nuclear Armageddon upon the world.

What’s Terminator Zero about?

Like most different entries within the Terminator franchise, the story of Terminator Zero will contain time journey. The sequence’ protagonist, an as-yet-unnamed soldier, travels again in time to 1997 to guard Malcolm Lee, a scientist working to create a “benevolent” AI designed to guard humanity from Skynet.

After all, the soldier’s job received’t be simple, as Skynet has despatched an “unrelenting murderer” to the previous to kill not solely Malcolm, but additionally his three youngsters. Amidst all this, Malcolm will grapple with the complicated ethical ramifications of designing what boils all the way down to a digitized youngster soldier, who will bear the brunt of Skynet’s malevolence.

Who’s making Terminator Zero?

Whereas Netflix will produce Terminator Zero, the sequence will likely be animated by Manufacturing I.G, the studio behind many iconic anime movies and tv sequence, together with Ghost within the Shell: Stand-Alone Advanced, Psycho-Cross, and Haikyu!!. The sequence will likely be directed by Masashi Kudō, who served because the director for the insanely common anime adaption of Tite Kubo’s Bleach.

Mattson Tomlin, who additionally wrote the script for The Batman: Half II, will write Terminator Zero’s script. In an interview with Leisure Weekly, Tomlin acknowledged that the sequence will deal with each film within the Terminator franchise as canon, which means that loads of Easter eggs and nods will likely be peppered all through Terminator Zero’s eight episodes.