‘Terminator Zero’ Adds Rosario Dawson, Ann Dowd, André Holland & Sonoya Mizuno To Voiceover Cast
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Rosario Dawsonand Ann Dowd are joining the voiceover cast of Terminator Zero, the new animated series for Netflix that’s dropping Aug. 29.
Dawson (Ahsoka, Common Ground) will playKokoro, an advanced AI and Japan’s answer to Skynet. If brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power as Skynet. Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, MASS) will take over asThe Prophet, the philosophical guide for the human resistance, a light shepherding survivors in the darkness of the unknown future ahead.
As previously announced, Terminator Zero features Timothy Olyphant as the Terminator.
Hailing 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.
The series is set in two time periods. In 2022, a future war has raged for decades between the few human survivors and an endless army of machines. In 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 comes from Mattson Tomlin, a writer on The Batman II, who serves as showrunner. He will exec produce alongside Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger. Masashi Kudo is director and Production IG is the animation studio.