Creating the 'Terminator Zero' Story with Mattson Tomlin

In an interview with Mattson Tomlin, the creator, executive producer, and writer of the animated Netflix series Terminator: Zero to discuss the upcoming show. He talked about the show's timeline, the decision to use new characters, the challenges of writing action scenes in Japan, and the influence of AI on the story.
Terminator: Zero takes us to 2022, where a relentless war has raged for decades between the last remnants of humanity and an unending machine army. Flashback to 1997: the AI known as Skynet achieves self-awareness and launches its devastating war against humankind. A soldier sent back in time to alter humanity's grim fate is caught in the crossfire between these two timelines. Arriving in 1997, Eiko's (Sonoya Mizuno) mission is to protect scientist Malcolm Lee (André Holland) as he races to launch a new AI system, Kokoro (Rosario Dawson) designed to counter Skynet's impending attack. Malcolm grapples with the moral implications of his creation while being hunted by a relentless assassin (Timothy Olyphant) from the future; an event that tragically alters the lives of his three children.
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[@calebkampsen7618]

This guy is a genius. The show is absolutely phenomenal. What a great interview!!! Can’t wait to see more.

[@craign2565]

Yeah this guy gets it. Bravo sir the series was phenomenal.

[@joeshmow9097]

From the trailers and clips I have seen, Mattson gets it. As a huge Terminator fan, I hope we fans finally get something worth watching again... it has been a long time...

[@infosuge]

Loved Terminator franchise growing up, then Matrix arrived and The Animatrix - 'The Second Renaissance' went as far to explain how and why the machines blackened the sky and enslaved humanity.. From then on I never bought into the motives of Skynet in movies like Salvation etc, the future war always depicted this world where humans were rounded up in this over elaborate way to be terminated? They didn't make any sense, came across as convoluted far removed from what made the franchise so good. T-0 addresses this and I'm left wanting to see what happens next, hope we get a few seasons of this show it was unexpectedly excellent Tomlin and the team really did a good job on this.