James Cameron just can’t quit the Terminator franchise. After producing Terminator: Dark Fate, Cameron is looking forward to more from the iconic sci-fi franchise, including an anime series and a project he’s involved with.
Firstly, the legendary filmmaker stopped by THR to dive into the upcoming Netflix’s Terminator Zero.
Concerning the new anime series, he noted: “It looks interesting. My relationship to that is very much like The Sarah Connor Chronicles — other people spinning stories in a world I set in motion is interesting to me. What’s their takeaway? What intrigued them about it? Where are they going with it? It looks like they’re going back to the root cause of Judgment Day — the nuclear war — and whether that’s an ultimate timeline. I’d be curious to see what they’ve come up with.”
Then Cameron casually dropped that he’s working on more Terminator, revealing that: “I’m working on my own Terminator stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with [Termiantor Zero]. Like with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, they occasionally touched on things I had been playing with completely independently. So there’s some curiosity there. It’s not a burning curiosity, but obviously, it’d be nice to see it succeed.”
“It’s totally classified,” Cameron continued with regards to his own project. “I don’t want to have to send out a potentially dangerous robotic agent if you were to talk about it, even retroactively.”
While we await further word on Cameron’s top secret plans, the animate series Terminator Zero is scheduled for release on Netflix on August 29, 2024. Watch the trailer here.
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.
Featuring in the cast of Terminator Zero are Timothy Olyphant (The Terminator), André Holland (Malcolm Lee), Rosario Dawson (Eiko), Ann Dowd (The Prophet) and Sonoya Mizuno (Kokoro).
Terminator Zero will premiere on Netflix on August 29th.
Originally published August 17, 2024. Updated August 18, 2024.
