As Tomlin tellsEntertainment Weekly, the show treats all the past films as canon.
We’re not going to pretend that the third movie didn’t happen.
We’re not going to pretend that the sixth movie didn’t happen, he says.
A new Terminator arrives in ‘Terminator Zero’.Credit:Netflix
No, the specific challenge related to the setting itself.
Tomlin took it a step further and set the eight-episode anime in Japan.
If we needed a gun, we don’t know where we would get it.
A look at the ‘Terminator Zero’ Netflix anime series.Netflix
It was just such a stunning moment for me, like, Oh, wow, Iaman American.
That instance is a good indication of howTerminator Zerobreaks from what audiences have come to expect from this franchise.
There’s been a run at that a couple of different times," Tomlin says.
‘Terminator Zero’ is set in Tokyo on the cusp of Judgment Day in 1997.Netflix
“There are a lot of callbacks to the other films,” he adds.
web connection becomes self-aware leading to a decades-spanning war between an endless army of machines and the human survivors.
Tomlin was very much inspired by the first twoTerminatormovies: 1984sThe Terminatorand 1991sTerminator 2: Judgement Day.
Humanity faces an apocalyptic vision in ‘Terminator Zero’.Netflix
You do not know that he is the hero.
In a similar way forTerminator Zero, he adds, These are all original characters.
We don’t know who anybody is.
All of those answers are going to absolutely be revealed and they’ll be revealed pretty quickly.
The inspiration comes through further in the tone of the series.
“There’s a little bit ofFriday the 13thin here.
There’s a little bit of Michael Myers [fromHalloween] in here.”
All episodes ofTerminator Zerodrop Thursday, August 29, at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on Netflix.
