André Holland (Moonlight) and Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka) have joined Netflix’s Terminator Zero‘s voice cast along with Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon) and Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale). The newcomers join Timothy Olyphant who was previously announced to star as the voice of Terminator in the anime series.
Terminator Zero is the first animated entry in the popular Terminator franchise. The eight-episode first season will feature new characters, with Ghost in the Shell’s Production IG handling the animation.
“I asked my long-time friend and colleague Mamoru Oshii what he thought about the idea of turning Terminator into an animated series. His response was ‘Ishikawa, are you out of your mind?’ At that instant, I was confident we should get on board. As huge fans, our team at Production I.G is putting their heart and souls into creating this series. We hope fans will enjoy it!” said Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, President and CEO of Production I.G., when the series was greenlit back in February 2021.
Netflix is targeting an August 29, 2024 release date. August 29th is known as Judgement Day to Terminator fans, marking the date that Skynet became self-aware.
“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,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “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.”
Netflix released the following descriptions of the characters the just-announced cast will be voicing:
• Rosario Dawson 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 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 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 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.
Mattson Tomlin created the series and serves as an executive producer along with Skydance.
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