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Jomi and Steve are back and ready to dive in to Terminator Zero. The guys share their instant reactions to the new Netflix series, before presenting their top five ideas for anime adaptations they would like to see.
Hosts: Jomi Adeniran and Steve Ahlman
Producer: Jonathan Kermah
Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopal
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Terminator’s been largely on ice since 2019, but it’s returning with Terminator Zero. The upcoming anime is looking to expand the scope of the sci-fi thriller franchise by going to Japan and focusing on a new set of characters caught up in the Human/Skynet war. But war is hell, and as a mature animated series, it’s also coming with a ton of violence on display.
During Anime NYC, Netflix released a new red band trailer that shows a bunch of humans getting mutilated or killed in the meanest of ways. These new killer robots (and Timothy Olyphant’s lead Terminator) were created by an AI named Kokoro (Rosario Dawson) developed in Japan as the country’s Skynet equivalent, and who are hunting down its creator Malcolm Lee (André Holland) and his family. It falls to time-traveling resistance soldier Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) to protect the Lees and try to stop Kokoro before it devastates the country like Skynet has in the west.
Ahead of the trailer’s release, showrunner Mattson Tomlin told Polygon his desire to “lean into the strength” of working with Japanese studio Production I.G (Kaiju No. 8, Ghost in the Shell). The earlier movies were so focused on the United States and Mexico, and gave no real mention of other countries beyond Russia. With that in mind, pivoting to Japan and away from the Connors wasn’t difficult at all, and in fact afforded him an incredible amount of freedom. “The movies have been…about this family and this saga,” he noted, “but I’m doing an animated show and that hasn’t been done before in this franchise. […] What’s going on anywhere else in the world?
While writing Zero, Mattson keyed in on three core Terminator pillars: killer robots, “fear and dread around nuclear holocaust,” and family-centric stories. If the first two films are respectively about “a man and woman making a baby” and “a mother’s love for her son,” this series is about a fractured family coming together again. In his eyes, you don’t get Terminator without those three tenets, they’ve all led to an enduring franchise aiming to make a comeback and take some new swings.
Terminator Zero premieres August 29 on Netflix.
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Netflix has released a trailer for its new Terminator anime series from Skydance, Production I.G, Masashi Kudō and Mattson Tomlin. Take a look:
Starring the voices of Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson, Sonoya Mizuno, André Holland and Ann Dowd, Terminator: Zero concerns scientist Malcolm Lee (the world’s oldest-looking 32-year old man) after developing an AI to compete with Skynet. Since this is a Terminator story, “Lee finds himself and his three children pursued by an unknown robot assassin.” Luckily, “a mysterious soldier from the year 2022 has been sent to protect him.”
While the trailer doesn’t reveal too much, no one could claim it doesn’t look like another entry in the Terminator franchise. Androids missing half their faces, nuclear armageddon, a cool-looking heroine– it’s all here. That said, the trailer does include the striking new image of a T-800 wearing a parka– as well as a smaller cave search-and-rescue robot dressed in a yellow rain slicker. Caves are very moist, so it could absolutely use something to protect its inner workings from condensation and seepage. I love that.
Anyway, as the trailer promises “this isn’t what you think it is,” I’m sure its only meant to present a false sense of familiarity before pulling the rug out from under us with a brand-new, subversive take on some very familiar material. However, as the trailer also states, “there’s no going back–not really.” So who’s to say yet?
Come what may, the series premieres this August 29th (that’s Judgement Day, of course, according to Terminator 2) only on Netflix.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is perhaps one of the strangest examples of an actor who did something different with his life later on. While most people are probably familiar with him from films like Terminator and Total Recall, he then served as the Governor of California for eight years. For a lot of politicians, a governorship is a stepping stone to a Presidential run — but not for Schwarzenegger, because in order to be President, you have to be a natural-born U.S. citizen, and Schwarzenegger is obviously not.
If the rules were different, though, Schwarzenegger would like to run for President. In an interview for Who’s Talking?, Chris Wallace asked Schwarzenegger “The Constitution says that the President has to be a natural-born U.S. citizen. If not for that, would you have run for president?” He replied…
Well, yes, of course. I mean, I think the field was wide open in 2016. And I think the field is open right now. I mean, think about it right now. I mean, who is there? There is really not a person that can bring everyone together. Who is here today that people say okay, he’s not too old or he’s not too this or too that, or is that because it’s now a question about who do you vote against then who do you vote for?
READ MORE: The Schwarzenegger Fan’s Guide to FUBAR
He added that if he could run he “absolutely” would because, in his eyes, “I could win that election.” (It’s a “no brainer” he added.)
Unless someone changes the Constitution very quickly, though, that’s not going to happen. But if you want to watch some new Schwarzenegger stuff, though, that you can do; his new series FUBAR and his new documentary Arnold are both streaming on Netflix.
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