Arnolds Terminator 4 Cameo Details

First off this is a MONSTER plot spoiler if true. Well ok not really monster but it will reveal part of the time line of the movie. So you may want to not read on any further. The Clinton Record ( via Filmonic ) is reporting that Roland Kickinger is replacing Arnold in the upcoming Terminator 4. He tells them, and here is the time line spoiler;

“There’s a very strong scene in the film where John Connor for the first time meets the Terminator, and he doesn’t know if he’s a good guy or a bad guy,” said Kickinger.

“It’s Arnold’s character in the first Terminator. That’s basically my role, but 20 years before, so it establishes how the Terminator [came] about.”

This makes perfect sense to me. Accept I thought that the Terminator that Arnold plays was much farther down the line. Especially when you look at the terminator below which is from the new movie. Going from the giant tank like robots which we saw, then to the Terminator below, to the Arnold Terminator is an awful large leap in the timeline.