Well Father Geek's mailbox was flooded with Schwarzenegger info this morning, much of it useless repetition of previous AICN stories, but I decided to post these bits just to confirm some of what we've been saying for quite sometime now on the site. I've read the King Conan script and am very excited about the prospects, just hope they don't cut his (Conan's) balls off in the drawnout development process... Careful boys! Those are fragile jewels you're holding in your hands!
Call me Egoiste if you use my name, but IMDB has posted the following in their news section:
Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning as Conan The Barbarian - nearly 20 years after the mystical warrior's last movie. Arnold broke into Hollywood's big time with 1982's Conan The Barbarian and its 1984 sequel Conan The Destroyer - and is now waiting for the script to be finalized for a third instalment. Writer and film-maker John Milius , who directed the first Conan movie, is currently trimming his screenplay following advice from the Wachowski Brothers, who made The Matrix .
"I just had a cigar with him the other day,"
Schwarzenegger reveals. "He's rewriting it as we speak, because he has
written it, and it was a 168-page script. One of the Wachowski Brothers
called and told him the script would take too much time and be a
three-and-a-half-hour movie, he should cut it down to 120 pages and take
certain things out. And that's what he's doing right now."
Father Geek back... we just received this juicy tidbit here at Geek Headquarters in Austin...
Hey guys, Thomas Chau here from "Cinema Confidential"...
Cindy Pearlman in our "Cin City" column this week talked to Arnold and he talked some about "True Lies 2," indicating that a script was turned in last week.
No lie: The Big Lug is at it again. Arnold Schwarzenegger says that a script was turned in last week for "True Lies II." Details? Schwarzenegger tells this column, "Jim Cameron finished the script a few months ago. But I'm not sure it will shoot this year. I'm going to go away for a long time to do 'Terminator,' and it's not my style to go away again so quickly and do another huge movie. I like to do one movie a year at the most. We'll shoot it next year. We have a good script. There does need to be some changes because it deals with some terrorists act of some sort. But it's pretty much done."
Full article is at: http://www.cinecon.com/news.php3?d=020130&n=1
