Arnold Schwarzenegger may have played The Terminator five times on the big screen, but there’s one iconic role he’s not portrayed for over 40 years.
Back in 1982, the Austrian Oak starred in his breakthrough role as Conan the Barbarian.
Following up the sword-and-sorcery blockbuster with 1984’s Conan the Destroyer, a third film in trilogy called Conan the Conqueror didn’t come to pass for Schwarzenegger.
But now the former Governor of California has confirmed he’s set to reprise the role in King Conan.
Speaking at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, TheArnoldFans reported that Schwarzenegger has confirmed Mission Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie will write and direct King Conan.
The 78-year-old star shared: “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.”
Teasing the plot, Schwarzenegger added: “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.”
