Edward Furlong is returning as John Connor, and a new SDCC featurette was also released. It's in there that the tentacled Terminator is first glimpsed.
This has become standard practice for the Terminator: Dark Fate is making some big new additions.
It had already been revealed that Gabriel Luna's villainous Terminator, Rev-9, possessed the ability to split into two different forms: one a liquid metal like the T-1000, and the other an endoskeleton. You'd be forgiven for thinking that was the only new model, but as seen at around the 1:16 mark in the new Terminator: Dark Fate featurette, it's not the case. Here we see Mackenzie Davis' Grace doing battle with a Terminator when the tentacles are then revealed. It's only a brief shot, but enough to give us a good look at the new machinery.
There are at least a couple of machines that appear to possess the tentacles, which are again rooted in the T-1000's ability to form metallic weapons. The difference here is in how they're able to move, with the tentacles coming out of the new Terminators less rigid and more, well, squid-like, which makes them seem like a much stranger addition in of appearance, but perhaps even more useful as a weapon.
It's unclear exactly where and when Terminator: Dark Fate trailer, which further confirms this is from a look into the future, although it still remains to be seen when that occurs in the movie itself.
Since Grace is able to be sent back from the future, though, there's a chance the new models can as well, so it'll be interesting to see if they have a sizeable role in Terminator: Dark Fate, or if they're just there as a small yet flashy new machine.
