Arnie’s back for Terminator role

HE said he would be back, and now Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing just that.

The 63-year-old action movie hero turned politician is set to star in a new Terminator movie being shopped to Hollywood studios, an industry source said.

Schwarzenegger, who played the killing machine cyborg in three of the blockbuster movies with the catch phrase “I’ll be back”, is on board to reprise a role that helped make him one of Hollywood’s most successful and recognisable stars, the source said.

The news follows the end in January of Schwarzenegger’s two terms as governor of California, and his announcement in February that he was ready to take movie offers again.

He has already announced he is developing a TV show and comic book based on his political nickname “The Governator”.

Industry website Deadline Hollywood reported that Schwarzenegger’s talent agency Creative Arts Agency (CAA) was presenting a proposal regarding the Terminator this week to major Hollywood studios, that would revive one of the industry’s most successful franchises.