Update: Tim Miller confirmed to IGN in a livestream that the T-800 is not the original from the 1984 film, but in fact a new one of the same model and that the villain of the movie is Gabriel Luna's T-1000.

Original report follows.

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New footage from Terminator: Dark Fate screened at Thursday’s San Diego Comic-Con confirmed that Arnold Schwarzenegger is once again playing the T-800 and not a new human character. In fact, he appears to be the same Terminator from the original 1984 film. In the footage, we discover he has “grown old” living out in a house in the woods under the name of “Carl” and has weapons and traps around his home.The T-800 recognizes Sarah Connor and says he will help them save Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) from Gabriel Luna’s Terminator. A good chunk of the footage shows her bitterness towards the character, who she promises to kill at the end of their mission. “When this is all over, I am going to kill you.”“I understand,” the T-800 replies.There are several action shots of the T-800 and Sarah firing at the T-1000 from the bay of a cargo plane. The T-800 shields Sarah from a barrage of bullets, to which she replies, “Don’t touch me.” The T-800 then blows the human face off the T-1000.Another moment shows a confrontation between the T-1000 and the group. When he asks why they don’t just hand over Dani, Sarah replies, “Because we’re not machines, you metal motherf***er.”The footage screened also confirms that Mackenzie Davis’ character Grace is not a Terminator but an enhanced human soldier from the future.“I’m addicted to Terminator,” said Schwarzenegger on why he came back -- pun intended -- for Dark Fate, hailing the original film and T2 for the action movie star career he’s enjoyed and how indebted he is to James Cameron. He said he saw Dark Fate three weeks ago and that he was “blown away” by it.The core dramatic throughline of Terminator: Dark Fate, however, explores the consequences of Sarah Connor’s decision to destroy Cyberdyne at the end of T2: Judgment Day, director Tim Miller revealed. The director said his biggest and only real incentive to do the film, as a fan of the franchise, was exploring the continuation of Sarah’s story.Producer James Cameron said -- via a live stream from the set of the Avatar sequels at the top of the panel -- that, “There is no Sarah but Linda,” so they never considered recasting. He wrote an email to Hamilton explaining to her all the pros and cons of doing the film but that ultimately people love her as this character and that the movie will explore who Sarah is now and what’s her life been like in the meantime since the end of T2. Hamilton was initially reluctant to return but was eventually won over and then trained for a year for the physical demands of the role.The panel also revealed that T2 star Edward Furlong would reprise his role as John Connor in Terminator: Dark Fate , and that the film will receive an R-rating. For more from San Diego Comic-Con, check out our news hub