Commando 2, King Conan and a new Predator movie all remain on the slate for Arnold Schwarzenegger, it seems. More here. Arnold Schwarzenegger is gearing up for another press tour at the moment, with The Man With The Bag his incoming project. It’s Amazon Prime’s Christmas movie, with Arnie playing Santa, and it’s heading our … Schwarzenegger: he stills wants those Predator, Commando and Conan sequels
Commando 2, King Conan and a new Predator movie all remain on the slate for Arnold Schwarzenegger, it seems. More here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is gearing up for another press tour at the moment, with The Man With The Bag his incoming project. It’s Amazon Prime’s Christmas movie, with Arnie playing Santa, and it’s heading our way in December.
That means he’s doing interviews, and he’s inevitably being asked about the assorted sequels he’s teased over the years (when he’s got something new to sell) but not yet made. We’re looking specifically at the new Conan film that Christopher McQuarrie was at one stage involved with, a Commando 2, and a new Predator movie.
The one that’s fallen by the wayside is Twins sequel Triplets, which won’t be coming back following the passing of directing Ivan Reitman a few years ago.
As he told Jimmy Kimmel, “it’s like I’m looking forward to see the scripts because that’s where the action is. What’s not on the page is not on the stage. So I just wait for the scripts to get perfected and then we go and start shooting those things”.
It’s hard to tell from this which is the most advanced. Christopher McQuarrie was supposed to be moving King Conan into production next year, but now appears to have switched his attention to Compassionate Release, with Denzel Washington. The others is anyone’s guess.
Schwarzenegger, now 79, hasn’t lost his appetite for these it seems, but sooner or later, they’re each going to have to start shooting, else get lost on the pile of franchise movies that were never made.
If any of them is going to happen, at least King Conan has a director in theory attached to it, and that seems the most likely. But all of them feel slightly longer bets than they would have been a couple of years ago.
More as we hear it. The Man With The Bag lands on 2nd December.