Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals Plans to Reprise Some of His Most Iconic Roles in Upcoming Sequel Films
Arnold Schwarzenegger will reprise one of his most iconic roles.
The action star recently confirmed at the Arnold Sports Festival that he’s going to return for a sequel to Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer. According to a report from ScreenRant, the film will be titled King Conan.
The original film saw Arnold playing a warrior seeking revenge against the people who killed his family and it was rebooted once in 2011 with Jason Momoa in the titular role.
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Mission: Impossible helmer Christopher McQuarrie is going to write and direct the new movie.
“They just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise’s last four movies. They just hired [Christopher McQuarrie] to write and direct King Conan,” Arnold told fans.
He continued, “With King Conan, it’s 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.”
In addition to returning to Conan the Barbarian, Arnold says he’s been talking to director Dan Trachtenberg about returning for the next Predator.
“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,” the 78-year-old shared. “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’.”
Earlier this year, Chris Pratt shared the “big” gift Arnold got him for Christmas.