Netflix has finally named and dated its new anime series Terminator Zero, releasing worldwide on August 29th. If you recall your convoluted time-traveling, skin-wearing cyborg apocalypse history, you’ll realize that’s the 27th anniversary of the series’ Judgment Day, when the machines begin their conquest of humanity. Well, one of them, anyway. The show is mainly set in 1997 Tokyo, and according to its writer, it won’t be ignoring the movies — any of them.
So, the outlet writes, it’s “more sword fights with a Terminator that has blades for arms.” Tomlin told Entertainment Weekly that the show doesn’t “pretend the third movie didn’t happen” — or the sixth one. So Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator from Rise of the Machines did carry that casket, and an elder Sarah Connor did return in Dark Fate.