Rosario Dawson and More Join Netflix's TERMINATOR ZERO Anime Series
Rosario Dawson has joined Timothy Olyphant in Netflix’s upcoming anime series Terminator Zero along with a few other actors.
Dawson (Ahsoka) will take on the role of Kokoro, “an advanced AI and Japan’s answer to Skynet. If brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power as Skynet.”
Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, MASS) also joined the cast and will play The Prophet, “the philosophical guide for the human resistance, a light shepherding survivors in the darkness of the unknown future ahead.”
Other new cast members include André Holland (Moonlight, The Knick) as Malcolm Lee, “a genius computer programmer and father of three who is haunted by prophetic nightmares of an apocalyptic future.”
Then there’s Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians), who will voice Eiko, “a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop Malcolm from launching Kokoro.”
Olyphant will be playing the Terminator.
The description of the series reads: “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.”
The series is set in the same universe as James Cameron’s film franchise, but the Connor family is not part of the storyline. It will focus on all new characters.
Terminator Zero comes from Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II), and he explained that the series will have the same kind of sci-fi horror vibe as Cameron’s original movie.
Tomlin previously said: “There’s a completely valid version of the Terminator franchise where the Terminator is synonymous with Jason and Freddy, where he is this unrelenting serial killer. There’s a little bit of Friday the 13th in here. There’s a little bit of Michael Myers in here.”
The anime comes from Japanese animation studio Production IG (Ghost in the Shell). The first season will consist of eight-episodes and it will be unleashed on Netflix on August 29, 2024.
Source: Deadline