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by Michael McWhertor

Netflix and anime studio Production IG's version of Terminator arrives this summer, marking a big year for James Cameron's killer cyborgs. Terminator: Zero will be a somewhat familiar time-travel story with a twist: While we have our standard future warrior sent to the past to protect humanity from killer machines, there will also be a new protector in the form of an AI designed to fight Skynet's genocidal ambitions.

Terminator: Zero's hero is an as-yet-unnamed soldier sent back in time to change the fate of mankind. She travels from a war-torn Tokyo in 2022 to 1997 to protect a scientist named Malcolm Lee, who is developing a rival AI system to stave off Skynet's attack on humanity. "As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation," Netflix said in a new synopsis for the animated series, "he is hunted by a relentless assassin from the future who forever changes the fate of his three children."