Netflix Announces Terminator Zero Premiere Date

From Skydance Animation and Production IG, Netflix has announced an August 29th premiere date for their upcoming Terminator anime series entitled Terminator Zero. Eight episodes are on the way from writer Mattson Tomlin and directed by Masashi Kudo, here’s the series 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.

EW has the first-look that you can see here.