Netflix Powers Up ‘Terminator Zero’ Cast with Rosario Dawson, André Holland & More

The singularity is nigh: Additional cast members have been announced for Netflix’s adult animated series Terminator Zero, bringing fans back to the AI apocalypse of the blockbuster film series. These newly announced stars join previously announced voice of The Terminator, Timothy Olyphant (Justified, Deadwood). The eight-episode saga debuts August 29.

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.

New Cast Announcements:

Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka, Common Ground) as Kokoro

An advanced AI and Japan’s answer to Skynet, if brought online, Kokoro will be endowed with the same power as Skynet. Kokoro must calculate for itself: is humanity the plague Skynet believes? Or are human beings worth saving?

 

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André Holland (Moonlight, The Knick) as Malcolm Lee

A genius computer programmer and father of three, Malcolm Lee is haunted by prophetic nightmares of an apocalyptic future. He’s spent the last decade creating a secret artificial intelligence that he believes will be humanity’s last hope.

 

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Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians) as Eiko

Coming from a post-Judgement Day 2022, Eiko is a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop Malcolm from launching Kokoro.

 

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Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, MASS) as The Prophet

In the future, the Prophet is the philosophical guide for the human resistance, a light shepherding survivors in the darkness of the unknown future ahead.

 

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Produced by Skydance and animated by Japan’s Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh, Psycho-Pass), Terminator Zero is headed by showrunner, executive producer and writer Mattson Tomlin (Project Power, The Batman II) and directed by Masashi Kudo (Bleach franchise, Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas films). Executive producers for Skydance are David Ellison, Dana Goldberg & Don Granger.