Arnold Schwarzenegger may be reprising three of his iconic roles from the 1980s.
At the Arnold Sports Festival in Ohio over the weekend, TheArnoldFans reports that Schwarzenegger discusssed his long-awaited return to the Predator franchise along with Commando 2 and a new Conan the Barbarian.
“They did an additional Predator, and the director [Dan Trachtenberg] has been doing a great job of that,” Schwarzenegger said. “Now, he wants me to be in the next Predator. We’ve talked about it.”
Several previous Predator films have attempted to get Schwarzenegger to reprise his role as Dutch. The character made a brief, cryogenically frozen appearance in the extended cut of Trachtenberg’s animated anthology, Predator: Killer of Killers.
Schwarzenegger added, “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 revealed that Christopher McQuarrie is writing and directing King Conan, a third installment in the sword-and-sorcery saga.
“They just hired a fantastic writer-director who did Tom Cruise’s last four movies,” Schwarzenegger noted. “They just hired [Christopher McQuarrie] to write and direct King Conan.”
He continued, “With King Conan, its a great old story that Conan was 40 years as King and now he gets forced out of the kingdom. 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.”
Despite being 78, Schwarzenegger still plans to deliver on the action. “They don’t write them like I’m 40 years old, you write it to be age-appropriate,” he explains. “I’ll still go in there and kick some ass but it will be different.”
