Selvom han nærmer sig de 80 år, ser det ud til, at vi snart får Arnold Schwarzenegger at se på det store lærred igen - og i flere af hans mest ikoniske roller. Under en optræden ved Arnold Sports Festival i Columbus, Ohio, i marts 2026, afslørede actionlegenden, at han er blevet kontaktet angående nye kapitler i både Predator-, Commando- og Conan the Barbarian-serierne.
Som rapporteret af The Arnold Fans forklarede Schwarzenegger, at "Fox Studios har nærmest genopdaget 'Arnold'", og at instruktøren Dan Trachtenberg (der for nylig har haft succes med Predator: Badlands og den animerede Predator: Killer of Killers) har talt med ham om at dukke op i det næste Predator-projekt.
"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. 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'."
Men det stopper ikke her. Schwarzenegger bekræftede også, at en længe ventet efterfølger til Conan the Barbarian er undervejs. Filmen, der går under titlen King Conan, vil vise en ældre og mere alderssvarende udgave af den berømte karakter. Det forlyder desuden, at Mission: Impossible-veteranen Christopher McQuarrie er udset til at skrive og instruere filmen.
"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."
Der er ingen tvivl om, at cheferne i de involverede produktionsselskaber må have fået kaffen galt i halsen over, at Arnie sådan afslører deres planer, men for fans er det store nyheder. Den legendariske stjerne valgte endda at tease lidt for plottet i King Conan:
"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."
Hvis dette har vækket din indre barbar, og du har lyst til at dykke dybere ned i Conans verden, så havde vi for nylig fornøjelsen af at interviewe en af de nøglepersoner, der hjalp med at bringe den oprindelige film til live. Du kan se vores interview med Benjamín Fernández herunder.