The writer and showrunner of Terminator Zero, Mattson Tomlin shared the first poster from the animation series earlier today. Tomlin reposted the image first shared on the X account of Netflix Geeked. In a different X post, Tomlin also said that he would discuss the series while presenting a sneak peek into it at AnimeExpo in Los Angeles this Friday. Timothy Olyphant lends his voice to a Terminator robot in the anime series for Netflix, which comprises eight episodes. Based on James Cameron’s Terminator universe, the series explores the fight for humanity's survival against the AI system Skynet. Malcolm Lee creates an AI system as a competitor to Skynet but soon faces the threat of an assassin robot from Skynet, making him grapple with the ethics of his creation.

Japanese animator Masashi Kudo is the director of the show. Production IG, the studio behind the Ghost in the Shell and FLCL franchises, is the animation company associated with the series.

Terminator Zero is slated to release on August 29 on Netflix.