Terminator Zeros first trailer offers darker glimpse at Judgment Day [Video]

On Monday, Netflix released the first official trailer for Terminator Zero, the upcoming anime series set in the Terminator universe. Produced by Skydance Entertainment and Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Psycho-Pass), the series takes place after the events of 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day and centers on Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno), a soldier sent back in time to protect the life of Malcolm Lee (André Holland), a scientist developing an artificial intelligence that could threaten the genocidal ambitions of Skynet, the malicious A.I. responsible for waging war on humanity. To do so, she’ll have to fend off a Terminator (Timothy Olyphant), a robotic assassin sent to ensure that Skynet’s plans go off without a hitch.

As you can probably guess, the trailer features a ton of visual callbacks to the original Terminator film and Judgment Day, including shots of a nuclear explosion engulfing a city, an assembly line of T-800 endoskeleton faceplates, a person being transported via a time field …