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Arnold Schwarzenegger was at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, this weekend, and TheArnoldFans learned some huge news about his future. This includes a Predator return. “They did an additional Predator, and the director (Dan Trachtenberg) has been doing a great job of that,” Arnold said. “Now, he wants me to be in the next Predator. We’ve talked about it. As a matter of fact, FOX studios has kind of rediscovered ‘Arnold’.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger Teases Several Projects
Not only did Arnold Schzqarzenegger say that the studio wants him to return to Predator, but he also revealed that he was just sent a script for Commando 2. What the 78-year-old actor does is another story, as he has reached the age where his action days might be ending, and his future franchise roles might be him in more of a superior role while passing the torch to a future star. Commando was a 1985 action movie where he played a former Army Special Forces colonel named John Matrix who learns that mercenaries killed his entire former unit, and he sets out for revenge. He could still theoretically pull off a similar role, as Sylvester Stallone continues to do, but it’s not as likely.
On top of that, his return to the Predator franchise can’t have him out in the field fighting a Predator one-on-one because that would just make the monsters look weak in comparison. He should be the man sending in someone to fight, using his past knowledge to help them. There is also the argument that he isn’t even needed in the franchise anymore because it has done spectacularly without him. The Predator franchise stands on its own now, and the franchise no longer needs Arnold.
