While attending this weekend’s Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, TheArnoldFans learned some exciting news about the future of Schwarzenegger films. If all goes according to plan, our favorite action hero will be back in three big blockbuster sequels including the return of Dutch, Conan and John Matrix!
"They did an additional Predator and the director (Dan Trachtenberg) has been doing a great job of that,” Arnold begins. “Now, he wants me to be in the next Predator. We’ve talked about it. As a matter of fact, FOX studios has kind of rediscovered “Arnold”. They’ve come to me and said, 'We want you to do Predator, we just got a script for you to do Commando 2’."
Schwarzenegger also tells us that FOX is moving forward with the next Conan movie.
“They just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise’s last four movies,” says Arnold. "They just hired him (Christopher McQuarrie) to write and direct King Conan.”
What about the fact that Arnold is now in his late seventies as an action hero?
“Now, what they do is that they write the part," Arnold explains. "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.
Schwarzenegger is excited and ready to get going with Conan and these other news films.
"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.”
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