Netflix dropped the first teaser during Geeked Week for ‘Terminator: The Anime Series,’ an eight-episode series, from Japanese animation studio Production IG.

“Anyone who knows my writing knows I believe in taking big swings and going for the heart,” Tomlin said in 2021. “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.”

Official synopsis:

“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.”

Mattson Tomlin is the showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer. Executive producers are Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger, and Director is Masahi Kudo.

No premiere date has been set.