Terminator Anime Series In The Works With The Batman Writer Mattson Tomlin

[Detective Conan]

'Terminator' Anime Series in the Works With 'The Batman' Co-Writer Mattson Tomlin

“The Terminator is coming back and this time he will be an anime.

Netflix and Skydance, the company that holds the rights to the long-running sci-fi franchise, have teamed up to produce an animated series based on the James Cameron-created killer robot from the future movie series.

Mattson Tomlin, who co-wrote the upcoming DC movie The Batman as well as Netflix’s own superpowered movie, Project Power, will act as showrunner and executive producer.”


Awesome. Surprised this didn’t happen sooner.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Just make it set in the future war.

 

[TheVileOne]

Will probably have bad, choppy CG animation.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

Just give me an animated adaptation of Robocop vs Terminator with both Arnold & Peter Weller providing the voice of their respective characters

 

[OutOfBoose]

I have no expectations, but I'll keep an eye on it. They can't abuse it in the same they were abusing Terminator franchise since Arnold became it's main asset. They will have to come up with something different.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Will probably have bad, choppy CG animation.

Took the words.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

It never occurred to me tbh, but if they insist on flogging this franchise maybe this is the way to go. I love the first two movies, and T3, TG, and TDF all had some elements that I liked - but between concept and release they just seem to **** it up. Maybe a longer arc will work in their favour.

 

[Sithborg]

Will probably have bad, choppy CG animation.

Production I.G is the animation studio, so not likely.

 

[TheWiseGuy487]

Production I.G is the animation studio, so not likely.

Not to completely side with TheVileOne on this one, but the last big series they did for Netflix was the CG Ghost in the Shell series, and...it doesn’t look the best. But, at the very least it probably won’t have choppy frame rate animation, since a lot of their series’ CG usually looks pretty good or has solid frame rate.

I predict either full cgi, or half/mostly hand drawn for the characters and important moments, and the terminator stuff being 2.5D cgi stuff.

 

[Sithborg]

Ahh, okay, I figured out why I didn't see it on the list. It was on a different category.

 

[TheVileOne]

Production I.G is the animation studio, so not likely.

This:



Over this:

 

[Pennywise]

 

[TheVileOne]

Hard to get excited about a Terminator thing after all the trash and damage that's been made for the last 20 years.

 

[Slick]

The only bright spot was the Sarah Conner Chronicles.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

If they are doing an animated Terminator then they need to cast Jennifer Hale as Sarah Conner.

 

[DarkKnight]

They've bastardized the film series enough. Hopefully this will be good, but low expectations here. I'll give it a chance and see what happens. The only thing I'd ever want to see at this point is the future war with John Connor and some flash back sequences or other time travel story lines that still feature John.

 

[Pennywise]

‘Terminator: The Anime Series’: Netflix Drops First Teaser For Eight-Episode Series

Netflix has dropped the first teaser for Terminator: The Anime Series from Japanese animation studio Production G. The eight-episode series will be part of the Terminator universe but will center a…

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The eight-episode series will be part of the Terminator universe but will center around new characters. This is the first iteration of the franchise to be animated.

Here’s the synopsis for the new series: 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.

 

[Sawyer]

In general, I feel like there’s no franchise that needs to be laid to rest more than Terminator, but I’ve got a decent amount of trust in Tomlin and a different medium at least frees it from the certain doom of trying to play a game Cameron already perfected.