<div><div><p><a data-ylk="elm:author;slk:Cheyenne MacDonald;itc:0" href="https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/cheyenne-macdonald/"><img alt="Cheyenne MacDonald" data-src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/25VCJEDlyhvGdlO1clrMig--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTgwO2g9ODA-/https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2023-09%2F04b773d0-5cbd-11ee-bbee-fb1bf060105b&amp;compress=1&amp;progressive=1&amp;quality=75&amp;client=hawkeye&amp;signature=0cbacc2ca3cac6650f7a242f12d6f4c7d37ff457" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/25VCJEDlyhvGdlO1clrMig--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTgwO2g9ODA-/https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-uploaded-images%2F2023-09%2F04b773d0-5cbd-11ee-bbee-fb1bf060105b&amp;compress=1&amp;progressive=1&amp;quality=75&amp;client=hawkeye&amp;signature=0cbacc2ca3cac6650f7a242f12d6f4c7d37ff457"></img></a></p></div></div><div><p>Netflix is giving the Terminator franchise the anime treatment in a new series that’s set to hit the streaming platform “soon.â€ The company dropped the first teaser for <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1" data-ylk="slk:Terminator: The Anime Series;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KedFX1pn2kA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Terminator: The Anime Series</em></a><em> </em>this weekend during its Geeked Week event. Details so far are scant, but we do know it’ll be produced by Production IG, the Japanese animation studio behind the original <em>Ghost in the Shell</em> movie and spinoff TV series.</p><p><em>Terminator: The Anime Series </em>will take us back to August 1997, when the Skynet AI becomes self-aware and turns against humans. While there is no information on the cast just yet, <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" data-ylk="slk:Variety;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/terminator-animated-series-netflix-1235781459/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Variety</em></a><em> </em>reports the series will feature entirely new characters.</p><p>Also on board as executive producers are Skydance and <em>Project Power</em> writer Mattson Tomlin, who will be the series’ writer and showrunner. Netflix hasn’t announced a release date yet or shown any preview scenes, so here’s hoping we get an expanded trailer soon. The Terminator franchise has had quite a few installments, not all of them good, but going back to the beginning could be just the refresh it needs.</p></div>