Sequels galore
Action icon Arnold Schwarzenneger recently announced that he will be going back to reprise roles in some of his most popular non-Terminator-related films. While the Predator series has been able to continue its franchise without the reappearance of Dutch, Schwarzenegger and director Dan Trachtenberg have talked about collaborating on the next one. 20th Century Studios has also proposed giving Commando a sequel. Additionally, Schwarzenegger is also returning to his Barbarian roots by finally getting King Conan off the ground after years of development hell.
Pumping iron
Arnold said that, in order to step back into the role of Conan, he will be going back to training hard in the gym to gain the signature physique. The former California governor has posted a picture of his training on his Instagram with a caption that simply says, “Still pumping.” You can see his biceps bulging below.
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King Conan
Schwarzenegger said, “They just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise’s last four movies. They just hired him (Christopher McQuarrie) to write and direct King Conan. Now, what they do is that they write the part, they don’t write them like I’m forty years old, you write it to be age-appropriate. I’ll still go in there and kick some ass but it will be different. With King Conan, its a great old story that Conan was forty years as King and now he gets forced out of the kingdom and there’s conflict, of course, but somehow he comes back and there’s all kinds of madness, violence, magic, and creatures and stuff like that. And now, of course, there’s all kinds of special effects. The studio has plenty of money to make those movies really big, so I’m looking forward to all of those projects.“
Previous drafts of King Conan have been written by Will Beall, Andrea Berloff, Chris Morgan, and Conan the Barbarian director John Milius. We’ll see if McQuarrie will be the one to finally get it into production.
The project was previously set up at Universal, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, “20th Century has spent a better part of the last year trying to tie up the rights to the character in order to move forward with a new feature.”
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