TERMINATOR: THE ANIME SERIES "Coming Soon" As Netflix Shares First Teaser

TERMINATOR: THE ANIME SERIES "Coming Soon" As Netflix Shares First Teaser

Netflix has shared a vague teaser trailer for Terminator: The Anime Series, confirming that the series is coming to the streaming service "soon."

By MattIsForReal - Nov 12, 2023 07:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Netflix
Source: AnimeMojo.com

Terminator: The Anime Series is coming soon. The streaming service offered its first update on the series since the project was first announced back in 2021, sharing a new teaser along with the vague release window message during Geeked Week.

While the teaser itself is pretty vague, it does imply that the series will be a prequel of sorts, taking place just before August 30th, 1997 -- Judgment Day -- the day that the artificial network known as Skynet became self-aware, leading to an all-out war between humans and machines.

Speaking to IGN, Netflix's Terri Schwartz provided further details:

"In August 1997, a computer scientist named Malcom Lee is working furiously from his lab in Tokyo to launch an AI program he believes will save the world. As the course of the future changes from the past, an unrelenting assassin is sent back in time to murder Malcom and his three children in order to ensure its future dominance over humanity. The assassin is followed through time by a lone soldier who will do anything to keep Malcom and his family alive in order to prove, once and for all, there is no fate."

Unfortunately, no other details for Terminator: The Anime Series were offered, but if it is indeed coming to Netflix soon than it shouldn't be long now before we get a proper trailer.

Terminator: The Anime Series is executive-produced by Skydance, Japan Animation Studio Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell, B: The Beginning), and Mattson Tomlin. Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman) is also serving as showrunner and executive producer

“Anyone who knows my writing knows I believe in taking big swings and going for the heart. I'm honored that Netflix and Skydance have given me the opportunity to approach Terminator in a way that breaks conventions, subverts expectations and has real guts," Tomlin said back when the series was first announced in 2021.

1984's The Terminator and 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day remain two of the most beloved action movies of all time, but as a whole, the franchise has struggled in recent years. Terminator: Dark Fate, the most recent film released in 2019, had mixed audience reviews and earned just $261 million worldwide. Although Dark Fate was intended to spawn a new trilogy of Terminator films, the movie's box office struggles resulted in those plans getting canceled.

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FusionWarrior
FusionWarrior - 11/12/2023, 7:25 AM
They'll be be back...in anime form and I'm all in!
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 11/12/2023, 8:25 AM
@FusionWarrior - AS am I. I had no idea this was coming. Can't wait!
BreakTheCode
BreakTheCode - 11/12/2023, 7:39 AM
Sounds boring and just the rehashed plot of most of the films. It got a lot of hate for some reason but I appreciated Salvation’s effort to do something new. The actual war should be explored more.
dragon316
dragon316 - 11/12/2023, 8:43 AM
@BreakTheCode - that is same with comic book movies good vs bad good stops evil defeat hero/ rule world universe bad lose
mountainman
mountainman - 11/12/2023, 8:50 AM
@BreakTheCode - I thought Salvation was ok at the time, but it is by far the best sequel since the original 2. It certainly was a cool concept to actually explore the human/machine war. I found Sam Worthington’s character to be an interesting and unique add to the mythos. My biggest complaint was that the ending went a bit off the rails.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 11/12/2023, 10:10 AM
@mountainman -


The fans didn't know what we had at the time🥲
Origame
Origame - 11/12/2023, 7:40 AM
...a terminator anime might just work 🤔
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/12/2023, 7:41 AM
I’ve been saying they should do this for years. Thank goodness!
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/12/2023, 7:53 AM
Ill check it out.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 11/12/2023, 8:00 AM
Wouldn’t mind an anime, but I’d rather see this franchise be given a solid 10 years before doing anything with it again.
Fares
Fares - 11/12/2023, 8:10 AM
Say what you will about Netflix, but you gotta respect their investment in animation.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/12/2023, 11:33 AM
@Fares - yeah, they're animation and anime projects are pretty cool. Captain Laserhawk was fun, and I can't wait for Scott Pilgrim
Fares
Fares - 11/12/2023, 2:33 PM
@bkmeijer1 - Oh I gotta go watch Laserhawk, I totally forgot that it's already out. And I absolutely can't wait for Arcane next year.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/12/2023, 2:36 PM
@Fares - Arcana is definitely the animated show I look forward a lot too as well, although the animated Witcher show looks great too.

As for Laserhawk, it was most fun because of the Ubisoft references. And it has some really creative episodes stylistically
Fares
Fares - 11/12/2023, 5:27 PM
@bkmeijer1 - Oh shit, I totally missed the Witcher announcement. I just watched the trailer and I was happily surprised to hear Doug Cockle voicing Geralt.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/12/2023, 8:28 AM
Sounds cool to me, the first movie is a classic.
dragon316
dragon316 - 11/12/2023, 8:45 AM
Anime did animematrix good should be intersting what they do here like to see more future stuff less past this time it’s about terminators not time travel
Gabimaru
Gabimaru - 11/12/2023, 8:49 AM
It's bothering me that they use the term anime even when they truly aren't japanese anime aesthetic at all. Even the tomb raider anime netflix looks like the last air bender animation. Which i don't mind but calling it anime is just not accurate.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/12/2023, 8:51 AM
Terminator montage

CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 11/12/2023, 9:14 AM
I'm a Terminator slut. I be watching this.
vadersdaddy
vadersdaddy - 11/12/2023, 9:33 AM
Imagine they take this and make it the prequel to The Matrix like it was always meant to be.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 11/12/2023, 10:18 AM
I was hoping it would be live. The Sara Conner Chronicles was freaking great and was better than most of the movies. to bad FOX screwed it up and pin-balled the show during the week.

However, I'm still excited and can't wait for it to come out.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/12/2023, 11:32 AM
That's just every Terminator plot ever. Why don't they just turn it upside down? Instead of sending terminators and protectors into the past, they sent them into the future. Don't know what the reason could be, but it'd already be a lot more interesting.
TheHummus
TheHummus - 11/12/2023, 11:47 AM
This franchise just won’t die
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