ROSARIO DAWSON, ANDRÉ HOLLAND, SONOYA MIZUNO, & ANN DOWD JOIN PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED, TIMOTHY OLYPHANT, AS THE VOICE CAST IN ALL-NEW ANIME SERIES "TERMINATOR ZERO"
Created and Executive Produced by Mattson Tomlin and Executive Produced by Skydance, Animation by Production IG Studios
EIKO (Sonoya Mizuno)
KOKORO (Rosario Dawson)
MALCOLM LEE (André Holland)
THE PROPHET (Ann Dowd)
TERMINATOR (Timothy Olyphant)
· Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka, Common Ground) as Kokoro - An advanced AI and Japan's answer to Skynet, if brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power as Skynet. Kokoro must calculate for itself: is humanity the plague Skynet believes? Or are human beings worth saving?
· André Holland (Moonlight, The Knick) as Malcolm Lee - A genius computer
programmer and father of three, Malcolm Lee is haunted by prophetic nightmares of an apocalyptic future. He's spent the last decade creating a secret artificial intelligence that he believes will be humanity's last hope.
· Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians) as Eiko - Coming from a post-Judgement Day 2022, Eiko is a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop Malcolm from launching Kokoro.
· Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale, MASS) as The Prophet - In the future, the Prophet is the philosophical guide for the human resistance, a light shepherding survivors in the darkness of the unknown future ahead.
As previously announced, the new anime series, TERMINATOR ZERO, is coming to
Netflix on "Judgement Day", August 29th, 2024. The anime hails from Japanese animation studio Production IG (Ghost in the Shell). The eight-episode series will be part of the Terminator universe but will center around new characters. It will be the first-ever iteration of the franchise to be animated.
ABOUT TERMINATOR ZERO
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.
Episodes: 8
Release Date: August 29, 2024
Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer: Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II)
Executive Producers: Skydance (David Ellison, Dana Goldberg & Don Granger)
Director: Masashi Kudo
Animation Studio: Production IG
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