When Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he was ready to get back into the movie business following his tenure as Governator of California, no one was really expecting him to dive headfirst back into Hollywood. Cut to 2012 and the actor has already shot a substantial role in The Expendables 2, just wrapped his “comeback” starring role in The Last Stand, and is poised to team up with Sylvester Stallone for the actioner The Tomb. Oh yeah, and a Twins sequel. Just last week we learned that Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are planning to reprise their roles from the 1988 comedy Twins in a sequel called Triplets with Eddie Murphy playing their long-lost sibling.
We got the chance to speak with Schwarzenegger in a recent group interview and the actor talked about the idea behind Triplets, how his personal life has affected the likelihood of a sequel to True Lies, and he also had some choice words for the most recent entry in the Terminator franchise. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
The interview was conducted before news of Triplets came out, so when asked if he’d like to do another comedy at some point in the vein of Twins, Schwarzenegger brought up the idea of a sequel:
“Yeah, if the story is good, I would love to do another Twins. As a matter of fact, we’ve been talking about doing one and it’s called Triplets. I’d find somebody like Eddie Murphy or someone [laughs] that people would say, ‘How does that happen, medically speaking?’ and, ‘Physically, there’s no way.’ Then somehow we would explain it. That would be hilarious with what we know about someone like him. You’ve got to find people that in, real life, people laugh about them and whatever we know about them that makes you laugh.”
Schwarzenegger went so far as to come up with a successful marketing campaign for the follow-up:
“I can see a poster, a billboard, with us three…’They found another one. Triplets. Only their mother can tell them apart.’ I would do that in two seconds, because that’s real entertainment. You come out with that movie for Christmas, like December 5th or something like that, and you’re home free, just like with the other one.”
His logic is sound, and I have no doubt that folks will line up to see the odd dynamic of Schwarzenegger, DeVito, and Murphy as siblings. The actor also touched on a sequel to True Lies, but candidly admitted that his personal life may keep that one at bay for a while:
“Or True Lies 2, with that we’ll probably have to wait a little bit because it’s more of a family kind of a movie, the family dynamic works. My personal situation doesn’t work so well right now. Until that’s settled, then we can go off and do that again, with family subjects. [laughs]”
Between breaking diving records and filming/rendering two sequels to Avatar, I think it’s safe to say James Cameron’s schedule is solidly booked for the next few years, so maybe once he’s done with aliens and oceans he’ll fancy a return to a good old fashioned action-comedy.
Finally, Schwarzenegger closed by saying he’d be open to sequels to a lot of his past works if the script is right, but he had a parting shot for McG’s Terminator: Salvation:
“[I’m open to] all those things, if it’s True Lies, Terminator, a well-made Terminator…the last one was awful. It tried hard, not that they didn’t try, the acting and everything. It missed the boat.”
Justin Lin was previously attached to direct another terminator entry with Schwarzenegger and had even sat down with Cameron to discuss the franchise, but he left the project to finish out his Fast and Furious series at Universal. Nevertheless, Terminator 5 is still in development, and it sure will be fun to see them bring Schwarzenegger back in an interesting way. In the meantime, I guess we’ll have to settle for Triplets as the next Schwarzenegger sequel on the horizon.
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This is coming from a guy who was in Terminator 3 which was absolute crap, Salvation killed that movie 10 fold!
Terminator 3 was at least good enough to keep the franchise going… Salvatation had that stupid, nonsensical, ending that ruined the movie and made me loose all interest in future installments.
WHAT?!?!?! T3 Was by far the softest most unimaginative installment of the entire franchise and to be worse than Salvation is saying something!
Sounds like sour grapes to me. T3 was the most pitiful copycat attempt of the franchise. It was god awful. Salvation was a major improvement over that mess.
Salvation was the worst of the franchise. I honestly can’t remember ANY scenes from that movie except the part with the CG Arnold…that’s how bad it is. T3 was at least entertaining and had an interesting ending…even tho it was nowhere near the quality of the first 2 films.
Salvation was the worst of the franchise. I honestly can\’t remember ANY scenes from that movie except the part with the CG Arnold…that\’s how bad it is. T3 was at least entertaining and had an interesting ending…even tho it was nowhere near the quality of the first 2 films.
Salvation was the worst of the franchise. I honestly can\\\’t remember ANY scenes from that movie except the part with the CG Arnold…that\\\’s how bad it is. T3 was at least entertaining and had an interesting ending…even tho it was nowhere near the quality of the first 2 films.
He’s right! Salvation is pure garbage. T3 is acceptable.
T3 was just a crappy rehash of T2, Salvation was better (but they’re both still terrible)
I distinctly remember Arnold saying that Terminator Salvation was “A great movie.” and that he was “very excited.” in an interview. Hypocrite.
No shit. You think the movie would have made any money if Arnie was quoted saying he thought it sucked?
Also, of course he’s a hypocrite, how the fuck do you think he got into politics?
This kind of thing pisses me right the hell off. I understand being tactful, but don’t endorse a movie and then turn around three years later saying it was crap. If you don’t like something don’t endorse it, you don’t have to trash the movie, but don’t say “it’s a great movie” if you don’t think so.
The whole ‘Terminator’ saga ended with T2, period, there was no artistic or creative reason (other than financial) for a third installment, never mind a prequel – and for the same reason there was no artistic reason for ‘Star Wars’ prequels, you simply didn’t NEED to see the already-established backstory to enjoy and appreciate the movies…
Could not have said it better.
T3 is a very fun movie, it’s nothing compared to T2 but it’s still really fun and Arnold was awesome in it, Terminator Salvation just felt bland…
T3 is an extremely entertaining action film. i’ve got to take issue with anyone who says terminator salvation is better. that would be seriously throwing your credentials into question.
To me salvation wasn’t as good as the first 3 but it was decent and actually fit well with the rest. Everyone expected it to have all three terminators in it and the war to be Hella bad ass but instead it showed the t-100s and other machines that were made before the t-101, t-1000 and t-x. I thought the waterbot was cool. And I don’t know what dude talking about but the end was good and made sense. Arnold did tell john in t3 he (or another t-101) would kill him. And if Marcus didn’t give him his heart john would be dead. So to me it wasn’t all that great but it did make sense showing some of the earlier stuff they worked on post arnold as far as the machines go. They had other killer machines before the terminators besides the hks.
Arnold is so right about “Salvation”.
McG has one great project under his belt, “Fastlane”, which also launched Peter Facinelli’s career, but since then, nothing that I’ve found watchable.
Timur Bekmambetov’s career seems to be taking a similar projectory after the success of “Wanted”.
maybe Eddie Murphy or Danny Devito are available for the Terminator film seeing as only Swarzeneggar’s mother can tell them apart
How did this man hold political office for so long? Or any job that didn’t entail working out and looking big, for that matter? He gives muscles a bad name.
T3 was enjoyable mainly because of Arnie ,but in T4 it didnt have strong characters to make you root for
I love all the Terminator films, and look forward to the fifth one.
Ok.. this is how the Terminator franchise is for me:
Terminator
- Great
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- AWESOME!!
Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines
- could’ve been better but still entertaining as hell:D
Terminator Salvation
- I swear I went to the movies when this came out and I TRIED TO LIKE IT!! But I can’t!! I JUST CAN’T!!:P
Salvation was bad-ass. T2 still the best.
Salvation is second to T2. It was very well-executed (and acted). Listening to Arnold as an authority on good movie-making is, well, silly. We never watched him because he had great taste or acting ability.
I thought for sure TRIPLETS was an April Fools joke. Those characters need revisiting out of all of Arnie’s films? It feels like something someone would say as a joke, then be forgotten about moments later.
T3 was weak but fun and watchable. SALVATION was terrible, loud and without charm. But Arnie has made a bucket load of shit over the years – The 6th Day, End of Days, Collateral Damage, Batman and Robin, Eraser.
C’mon, you’re SCHWARZENEGGER!!! Get a good script and a great director who can shoot action and make a GREAT movie!
The future war was promising as a sequel because of the kick-ass memories of Resse in T1 and the intro in T2. T4 was a poorly made and directed film by a hack as well meaningful as he was. And it was also making excuses for itself saying it wasn’t the real story we wanted to see, but a prequel to the upcoming sequel we wanted to see. So it filled up with transformer like bots and non-sensical frisbee bots , motobike-bots. And the HK was relegated to a dumb guard cameo letting constantly sneering avatar-guy into skynet-timburton squeeze central.
My predictions:
He will not have a major role in Terminator 5, if at all.
True Lies2 will never happen
Twins sequel, unless it is unbelievably superb will fall flat and go straight to DVD.
At his age, and popularity, he has a better chance of success being a co-star.
Looks like many are waking up. All actors and politicians lie. It’s what they do. After all, all they care about is themselves.
Salvation was the worst of the franchise. I honestly can\\\\\\\’t remember ANY scenes from that movie except the part with the CG Arnold…that\\\\\\\’s how bad it is. T3 was at least entertaining and had an interesting ending…even tho it was nowhere near the quality of the first 2 films.