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A 'Terminator' Anime Series is Coming to Netflix (variety.com) 75

Posted by EditorDavid from the I'll-be-back dept.
Variety magazine reports that Netflix has ordered Terminator anime series: "'Terminator' is one of the most iconic sci-fi stories ever created -- and has only grown more relevant to our world over time," said John Derderian, Netflix's vice president of Japan and anime. "The new animated series will explore this universe in a way that has never been done before. We can't wait for fans to experience this amazing new chapter in the epic battle between machines and humans."

Mattson Tomlin will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series. Tomlin most recently wrote the Netflix original film "Project Power" and worked on the screenplay for Matt Reeves' upcoming film "The Batman...."

"Anyone who knows my writing knows I believe in taking big swings and going for the heart," Tomlin said. "I'm honored that Netflix and Skydance have given me the opportunity to approach 'Terminator' in a way that breaks conventions, subverts expectations and has real guts."
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  • Which timeline? (Score:4, Funny)

    by BLToday ( 1777712 ) on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:41PM (#61109944)

    Terminator universe is non-closed loop timeline:

    1) Pre-T1 where John Connor wasn’t fathered by Kyle Reese
    2) T2 timeline
    3) Sarah Chronicles timeline
    4) Rise of the machine
    5) Genisys (aka Facebook/Google) timeline
    6) Alternate multiverse Genisys timeline where the terminators came from a different universe because they saw John Connor always winning
    6) Dark Fate. Eventually it’s going to happen. If it’s not Skynet it’s going to be something else

    I’m sure I missed a couple of timelines. I think I’ll watch it just make it fun. And a protagonist that I don’t want to punch. Even John Connor in T2 was annoying.

    • You forgot "The Sarah Connor Chronicles"

      Too bad it got cancelled just when things were going to get really interesting.

      • It's 3rd on his list.

        I agree, it was an incredible series and the best we have had after T2.

    • As soon as you introduce time travel as a plot element, all hope of rationality is gone. You just have to enjoy it.

    • what about robocop? now it will be robocopdog you have 5 seconds to comply...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Hopefully they will just ignore everything after T2. Well, I'd love to see a continuation of Sarah Connor Chronicles, that has been the only decent Terminator content since T2, but I don't think that is very likely.

    • Re: Which timeline? (Score:4, Interesting)

      by e3m4n ( 947977 ) on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:31AM (#61110910)
      Since Netflix is doing it, expect a fuckton of identity politics that is vastly disproportionate to reality. A recent statistic said the LBGT community is now 7% of the population. I was always generous and said 10% for nice rounding numbers. So when Netflix did Another Life, the dominated the entire story with damn near every character being some form of identity politics. With a cast of less than 15 people we have Lesbians, a gay botanist, a Tranny doctor, some polysexuals, and a shipâ(TM)s captain in love with an AI. In fact they are so hung up playing out every LBGT-aphabet they forgot to develop much of a plot. Event Horizon now has more substance and thats quite the insult. With a cast of 15 i expect ONE memeber to fall into an LBGT-alphabet profile as it complies with what we encounter in real life. If it was representative of 90% like the show insinuates, the plot would need to be about the pending extinction of the human race due to low birth rates.

      • Since Netflix is doing it, expect a fuckton of identity politics that is vastly disproportionate to reality. A recent statistic said the LBGT community is now 7% of the population. I was always generous and said 10% for nice rounding numbers. So when Netflix did Another Life, the dominated the entire story with damn near every character being some form of identity politics. W

        That's on purpose to normalize the abnormal. It's also why my youngest has very little access to anything outside of what I bought and put on my server

        I'm good with the flamebait mod :)

      • Conflict and suffering results in emotional plots and more entertaining stories. Those who identify as being from the 7% have typically gone through more conflict / suffering then those of use from the 90%. Nobody becomes trans-gender because they want to be. Being part of the LGTBQ community used to require risking your life. No longer so in most countries, but it is still difficult.

        Now many plots now contain LGTBQ elements because it is no longer taboo and it is an easy way to introduce deep charac

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by e3m4n ( 947977 )
          look, Im a fan of Ellen, I have found her funny for years. But when she had her sitcom and came out on her sitcom, the show tanked. It stopped being funny. They spent more time making it about being a lesbian than making it funny. There is no reason it cant be both. She could have been that same funny person, and oh by the way, she happens to be gay. Will & Grace was pretty funny in a very NYC neurotic Seinfeld sort of way. And while being gay was never hidden from Will & Grace, it was not a complet

  • I can't wait... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by rolytnz ( 1769750 )
    ...to see how woke they make it, some extra diversity for the sake of it, maybe some differently-abled people, a trans character, and John Connor struggling with autism and gender identity. Because why not.

  • dumb idea (Score:4, Insightful)

    by cjonslashdot ( 904508 ) on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:13PM (#61109994)
    Anime??!!!! Why donâ(TM)t they bring back Sara Conner Chronicles, which was an INTELLIGENT show and far superior to the movies??!!!!

  • Enough of sequels and old franchises (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    The Terminator universe has had 37 years and is well past its sell-by date.

    Do something new, damn it. SciFi provides infinite possibilities, why are your minds in a closed box?

  • The Terminator franchise sucked.
    Alien vs Terminator anyone?
    The first two were decent.
    Sci fi fans will be disappointed.

    • Sci-fi takes at least 5 years of content generally to build out a universe. I think the greatest examples of this are Star Trek and Star Wars. More so the average modern audience, doesn't like to be left confused but instead wondering. This can be a thin line but with sci-fi that has an already built universe, the potential for confusing the audience in a cliff hanger seems reduced. This is why these types of sci-fi are generally preferred (e.g. reboots or alternative timelines). Shit they are still remaki

    • I could have gone for a REAL bladerunner storyline and not a Black Mirror wannabe show. Electric Dreams sucked. There is plenty of room in the Shadowrun/Cyberpunk universe to carve out a good tv series. Hell you could do a nod to William Gibson and have a detective from the Touring agency chase down a serial killer that happens to be an AI that infects peoples wetware to go murder other people because it enjoys the feedback in the wetware interface when it tortures people. Like an AI version of a sexual sat

    • Obviously it should be Alien vs. Terminator vs. Predator

      Then every year or three they can bring out another sequel with yet another baddie added

  • Maybe they could take part of each name: Netflix and Skydance ... I can only think of Danceflix but that doesn't sound quite right ...

    • Maybe they could take part of each name: Netflix and Skydance

      Do you mean netflix and skynet? Because I think netnet has a nice ring to it.

  • So are they going to have a Tinkerbell/Jiminy Cricket/Scooby Doo sidekick character?

  • With Violet Evergarden.

  • Even Frankenstein's Monster was based on earlier tropes 200 years ago (Flesh Golem). Terminator isn't even close to being iconic, it's just another example of an ancient theme. Technology will turn on us and kill us all.
    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrankensteinsMonster

    • David and Goliath was an ancient story, so old already by the time someone wrote down the old testament that it had wormed its way in as two different stories in two different places.

      • Tell me about it. Some refugees blast off from mars right after the fifth planet gets torn apart and becomes an asteroid belt, crash lands on earth and thousands of years later we have some story of Noahs Ark. ;-)

  • They had me until "subverts expectations". We all know how well that approach went for Star Wars. May the phrase never be uttered again.

  • "I'm honored that Netflix and Skydance have given me the opportunity to approach 'Terminator' in a way that breaks conventions, subverts expectations and has real guts."

    We see a lot of that in the comics and Star Wars world. Lots of conventions being broken, expectations super subverted and in a really consequences be damned gutsy way too...

    That ruined franchises for the fans.

  • And re-hashing something old was a shameful taboo, that you hid away like Microsoft any of its "inspirations"? ;)

    When companies still took risks, because people weren't pussies yet, and losses were then price for the gold nuggets in-between.

    Don't want to be a memberberry, but I still remember that time before 1999.

    [INB4 triggered people of all generations with no individuality or personality other than the references they get and trinkets they decorate themselves with. ;]

  • One of the areas where NetFlix seems to be very attuned concerns syndications with viewing numbers that drop away.

    The platform is littered with shows [in fairness, not just their own] where there are one or maybe two seasons that get made before the show gets canned.

    The pragmatist in me realises that this is the cold, hard reality we live in today: if a show isn't supporting the numbers to justify the production costs, it won't get renewed. On the other hand, the fan in me thinks it is so depressing t

    • It's the Disney model: three years and done, before the actors can start sticking it to them for big raises.

      Five years of 25 shows used to be the goal, because then you had enough to push it into syndication with a different show every weekday, with one repeat. Great for broadcast channel models of ongoing, if lower, additional revenues. But neither broadcast nor serial daily means much anymore with streaming.

    • Firefly was a western. Its popularity is similar to the Mandalorian for similar reasons. A lot less of jedi superstition and religion, a lot more of winging it and wandering the wild west. At heart we are a species of explorers. Stories that push those buttons tend to do well in society.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by ytene ( 4376651 )
        "Firefly was a western."

        I can't completely disagree with you here: the style, production values, costumes and context of the show did a fantastic job of presenting the story of the Browncoats vs. The Alliance as being equivalent to the pioneering spirit of the early years of the history of the United States - the farm-steading and wagon trains - with the inexorable encroachment of "civilization" from the East Coast [the railways, the telegraph, etc.].

        It was absolutely a throw-back to the early pioneer

  • I am just waiting for a cartoon adoption of the Saw- and Cube-Movies. With PG-13 or younger.

    Oh, wait. We already got that one. Infinity Train.

  • No, thank you

  • I can't wait! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Petersko ( 564140 ) on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:19AM (#61111304)

    Sarah protected by busty schoolgirl in a medieval setting casting spells, running a machine gun, commanding a larger robot, and fucking an octopus - all at once!

    I'm in. Fire it up.

  • Terminator has been subverting my expectations since T3 back in 2003. I don't get excited about new Terminator announcements anymore. I just idly wonder where on the scale of stupidity and suck this one will land. Can we just move on to different stories guys? Please?

  • If not produced by a Japanese company?

    Well I for one would have welcomed our wide-eyed killer robot overlords!

  • Production IG does great work.

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