I told you I'd be back: Arnie set for another career revival

Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to return to the big screen after confirming filming will start on Terminator 5 early next year. Speaking to a fansite called The Arnold Fans, the Governator said: "I'm very happy that the studios want me to be in Terminator 5 and to star AS the Terminator, which we start shooting in January and I' …

[ravenviz]

Getting on a bit

I need your cardigan, your slippers and your motability scooter.

[Anonymous Custard]

Re: Getting on a bit

Indeed.

I'll be back, if I can remember where I was going...

[TheDysk]

Re: Getting on a bit

Senatogen 9 Millilitres!

[OrsonX]

@ravenviz

LOL!

+100

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Getting on a bit

Begun the search for more money has.

[Captain Scarlet]

Re: Getting on a bit

TAKE MY MONEY DAMN YOU

btw plz make Commando 2 as blowing stuff up is cool!

[Cheekygeek]

Re: Getting on a bit

If that line appears in the film in will be worth watching for that alone!

[Anonymous Custard]

Re: Getting on a bit

And I guess we can now also call it the Terminator Saga?

[LarsG]

Re: Getting on a bit

Will it come with a Zimmer frame and a bottle of wrinkle cream?

[Sebastian A]

Re: Getting on a bit

Instead of "I'll be back.: it'll be "Ow, my back."

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh yes

So what is he appearing as UNIVAC 1 ?

Reg can we have an Old Codger icon ?

[Lamont Cranston]

To be fair,

Arnie never really left the silver screen. Probably about time he did, though. "Triplets"? Who's the third - Adam Sandler?

[Dave 126]

Re: To be fair,

As far as I know, during his stint as the Governator, he only appeared in two films: Round the World in Eighty Days (with Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan) and the Expendables.

Your point stands, though- since leaving office, he's been in Expendables 2, The Last Stand, and an upcoming Stallone movie, in which Sly and Arnie must team up to escape from a futuristic prison.

2003: The Rundown as Cameo

2004: Around the World in 80 Days as Prince Hapi

2010: The Expendables as Trench

[Asiren]

Re: To be fair,

Depressingly, rumours and IMDB have Eddie Murphy involved...

[Philippe]

Re: To be fair,

Please, do not mention Eddie Murphy on a Monday ever again.

My week is now totally ruined..

[kain preacher]

Re: To be fair,

HEY want there to be a pulto nash part 3

[JeevesMkII]

"The 600 series were geriatric. We spotted them easy."

[Don Jefe]

Officer 1: 'We have it trapped at the top of the stairs, it appears to be scared to come down. What should we do?'

Officer 2: 'Just wait awhile, it'll have to nap soon.'

[Electric Panda]

As long as it's better than Terminator: Salvation. I switched that film off after 15 minutes, what absolute dross.

[Anonymous Coward]

'Have you seen this boy...he's my grandson, isn't he cute?'

[Tom 13]

Hollywood producers clearly have way, way too much money.

Only one of those three movies sounds like it should have made it past reading of the title and that's the King Conan movie.

Which reminds me: Terminator may have be his best role, but Conan the Barbarian clearly launched his career.

[Peter Gathercole]

Re: Hollywood producers clearly have way, way too much money.

I thought his first film was "Hercules in New York", although I believe his voice was dubbed out.

[Jess]

I thought his first film was "Hercules in New York"

But that hardly launched anything

[Dave 126]

Re: I thought his first film was "Hercules in New York"

That was the first film I ever fell asleep during - and I was about 12 years old at the time. I think it had been voted to be broadcast by a phone-in, on some Friday night television fund raising effort in the UK.

[sisk]

Re: Hollywood producers clearly have way, way too much money.

Yes, Hercules in New York was his first movie, but with that turd on his resume it's surprising he got to make a second.

[Jedit]

"Conan the Barbarian clearly launched his career."

Arnie's movie career was launched by Stay Hungry. His presence and attitude in that movie was what attracted people towards him as a screen actor.

[Mako]

Brent Spiner is probably sitting at home facepalming right about now.

[Frankee Llonnygog]

Maybe they can also bring back Robert Patrick ...

... and have him melt into a bath of Radox.

[LinkOfHyrule]

Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars

Still gets my vote as best line in a film ever!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars

Schwarznegger has so many brilliantly cheesy quotes it defies belief:

'Stick Around' (after he's just impaled a guy against a wall)

'You know when I said I'd kill you last Sully? I lied'

'Let off some steam, Bennett'

'Sub zero...now just...plain zero'

'See you at the party Richer!' (He decidedly will NOT be seeing Richter at the party as Richer has just had his arms torn off and been dropped a few hundred metres)

Got to give the bloke some credit, he's had a laugh with his career.

[hamsterjam]

Re: Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars, Get your ass to Mars

Not to forget::

(after Arnie has dropped David Patrick Kelly off a cliff)

Rae Dawn Chong: What happened to Sully?

Arnie: I let him go.

[Anonymous Coward]

Arnold Schwarzenegger meets the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Hasta la Vista - maybe

[Anonymous Coward]

Well..

.. I have to hand it to him, he's not one for sitting still. I hope I'll still be that active at that age. Having said that, I lived next door to someone who'd done national level fencing, and that guy was not exactly slowing down either - aged 75.

[Dave 126]

Re: Well..

Use it or lose it!

[Anomalous Cowshed]

I once visited the shrine to the Blessed Schwartz

In Thal, Austria, a village in the Styrian countryside (no relation to the similarly named Syrian countryside) spread out over hills and valleys. On one hill, there is a school with a massive mural of Schwartz facing the street. Down by the lake, there's an upturned boat, sawn in half, the inside of which is covered by a huge photograph of Schwartz and "Our Maria". I think that was his wife but they're divorced now. I didn't see any mention of his greatest contributions to Western Culture: "Al-bi-bac" and "fac you assol".

[sisk]

This is a joke, right? Have the studios not seen a picture of Arnold in a bathing suit lately? He's not exactly ripped enough to pull off Conan anymore.

[GitMeMyShootinIrons]

Depends on the context....

...an aged, weary King Conan could be the best (or at least most plausible) role mentioned.

[chiller]

hmm

"I need your cardigan, your slippers and your motability scooter." Oh and your corset.

Loved the T1 and T2 but it should have stopped there.

[Justin Pasher]

Standing out

"I'm very happy that the studios want me to be in Terminator 5 and ... I'm also going to do [Conan the Barbarian sequel] King Conan ... and also to do another Twins movie."

Hmmm.... One of these things is not like th other ....

[Christoph]

He may have played Conan ...

But he must be about ready to play Cohen the Barbarian and the Silver Horde

[Anonymous Coward]

The Good and The Bad....

Sceptical if they can resuscitate this franchise after two turkeys. T3 was a Telenovella and T4 a Transformers clone. Still, nice to see Arnie back as the mean terminator. T1 was the best. T2 was too much CGI showboating and that petulant kid?! Hollywood has been killing cinema of late, so what's the odds this won't be another Die Hard sequel? They could give it to Chris Nolan (Inception)? I'd like to see a TV series instead... TV has been decimating cinema in quality for well over a decade IMHO....

[John 110]

Re: The Good and The Bad....

Like the Sarah Connor Chronicles? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851851/

[Anonymous Coward]

"Like the Sarah Connor Chronicles? "

Tried watching it when I lived in the US but couldn't get into it. Did I gave up too quick- Your thoughts? Regarding T5 I was thinking of a full-on futuristic Sci-Fi TV series i.e. machines vs. humans plot but hoping for something better than the Matrix sequels .... Something edgy with a survival theme like 'The Walking Dead'...

[h3]

Re: The Good and The Bad....

There is probably about a total of 12 worthwhile episodes of that. (But the second season is 20 odd).

They should have done it in smaller chunks. (Using the profits of the DVD / Bluray to pay for the next).

[Tank boy]

I have detailed files

This has got to be a LOT better than Salvation, even with his old ass lumbering around. I'm smelling prequel.

[Why Not?]

Raw Deal & Kindergarten Cop were arguably his best work.

Killing people to the Rolling stones is a bit of a Signature move.

Maybe he can make sequels?

Sore Deal - as an undercover bitter ex government agent he smashes a Sanotogen counterfeit ring in a quarry and an old peoples home with enough armour to start world war 3 in a corduroy jacket.

[Stratman]

Read it carefully, Arnie

I think you'll find it's Conan The Librarian this time.

[Daniel B.]

UHF

So, I'm not the only one that has seen UHF, it seems!

[Daniel B.]

Your foster parents are dead

I wonder if they're continuing after Salvation. There's a good chance we'll see him as the 'evil' Terminator this time!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bet he doesn't play a terminator

He probably plays some guy who works for Cyberdyne who the T101 will eventually be made to look like. They'll show the first one rolling off the assembly line at the end or something.

[J 3]

Don't worry, voters...

(notice the correction there, the little comma you missed... And by the laws of universal irony I'll probably commit an even worse mistake in this post)

I suspect that subtitle was meant as a joke, but... I sure think that the US would be in better shape if even only half of the elected Republicans were like Schwarzenegger, really, instead of trying to be like the extremist fanatics who took control of their party in the past 20-30 years. He is definitely far from great, but that just underscores the gravity of the situation.

[Matt Bryant]

Hmmmmm.

Maybe not "I'll be back" as much as "Ah, my back!"

[George Nacht]

C´mon, think positive

It´s not like he hurts someone with his decision to act in movies, and the movies are easy to avoid, should you decide so. I rather appreciate Arnie as source of inspiration, as I too hope I won´t curl up and wait for death, come my fifties. As long as there are no erotic scenes, mind you…

Off topic, the last jab at Wayne Johnson, alias Rock, was not entirely deserved. The guy was in much better pieces than Mummy Whatever, Be Cool and lately Snitch were pretty watchable movies, and the guy can actually act. Well, better than Arnie anyway…

[IronSteve]

Re: C´mon, think positive

*Dwayne Johnson

[Brother52]

Re: C´mon, think positive

My coffee mug can act better than Arnie