Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms Predator, Commando, and Conan sequels are in the works
Just like a time-traveling Terminator, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to fill his future with journeys back into the past, as he’s planning to revisit multiple characters he previously played decades ago. If all goes well, Schwarzenegger says we can expect to see him in upcoming sequels to his 1987 sci-fi action horror classic Predator, his 1985 action extravaganza Commando, and his 1982 sword and sorcery hit Conan the Barbarian (and its less successful 1984 follow-up, Conan the Destroyer).
Predator and Commando
There have been a lot of rumblings about Schwarzenegger’s return to the Predator franchise in recent months, with a coda on the animated anthology movie Predator: Killer of Killers setting things up. We know that Schwarzenegger has had multiple meetings with Prey, Predator: Killer of Killers, and Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg about the idea they’re cooking up – and during last weekend’s Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, Schwarzenegger said (as reported by The Arnold Fans), “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, (20th Century 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’.“
He added that 20th Century Studios has also hired Christopher McQuarrie, now free from his Mission: Impossible commitments, to write and direct King Conan, a project that Schwarzenegger has been hoping to do for more than a decade at this point.
King Conan
Schwarzenegger said, “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. 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.“
Previous drafts of King Conan have been written by Will Beall, Andrea Berloff, Chris Morgan, and Conan the Barbarian director John Milius. We’ll see if McQuarrie will be the one to finally get it into production.
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