Arnold Schwarzenegger Says ‘Conan 3’ in the Works, Reveals New ‘Predator’ Movie Talks and ‘Commando 2’ Script: ‘The Studio Has Plenty of Money to Make Those Really Big’
Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed that he is in talks to return to three of his most iconic franchises: "Predator," "Conan the Barbarian" and "Commando."
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“They did an additional ‘Predator’ and the director [Dan Trachtenberg] has been doing a great job of that. Now, he wants me to be in the next ‘Predator.’ We’ve talked about it,” Schwarzenegger said to much applause from the convention crowd. “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.”‘
On the “Conan” front, Schwarzenegger said the studio “just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise’s last four movies to write and direct ‘King Conan.'” It would appear the actor is referring to Christopher McQuarrie, who has collaborated with Cruise on the recent string of “Mission: Impossible” movies.
Variety has reached out to reps for Schwarzenegger and McQuarrie for comment.
“Now, what they do is that they write the part,” the actor said. “They don’t write them like I’m 40 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,’ it’s a great old story that Conan was 40 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.”
