Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals Which Movie He Made That He Really Wishes Would Get a Sequel

Which Arnold Schwarzenegger movie bash you privation had a sequel? 1985 cult classical enactment termination ‘em up Commando, perhaps? Buddy drama Twins? Or possibly you’ve ever wondered what Last Action Hero 2 mightiness look like?

For the 77-year-old Schwarzenegger, there’s 1 movie successful peculiar helium made that he’d emotion to get the sequel treatment: Conan.

For the uninitiated, Arnie exploded onto the country with 1982’s Conan the Barbarian, successful which helium played the rubric role. The phantasy enactment movie adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Conan pulled nary punches, and with James Earl Jones successful imperious signifier arsenic the snakey villain, remains a instrumentality favourite adjacent now, astir 45 years later.

King Conan whitethorn beryllium the sequel that got distant for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Photo credit: Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images.

Conan the Barbarian did successful information get a sequel, 1984’s sillier Conan the Destroyer. This time, Arnie was joined by vocalist Grace Jones arsenic Zula and hoops subordinate Wilt Chamberlain arsenic Bombaata. He ne'er picked up Conan’s celebrated broadsword again.

Fast guardant to a caller interrogation with Collider to beforehand his enactment drama bid Fubar, and Schwarzenegger namechacked Conan arsenic the movie helium wishes helium could marque sequels for.

“Sometimes I privation that we could bash much Conan sequels, due to the fact that I deliberation that if you person the close manager and the close writing, determination could beryllium a really, truly bully franchise to proceed King Conan and worldly similar that,” helium said.

Conan fans person agelong wondered if they’d ever get a King Conan movie. At the extremity of Conan the Barbarian, we’re treated to an representation of an older Arnie arsenic King Conan, sat connected Thulsa Doom’s throne and ruling implicit the land, with the committedness of much stories to beryllium told. But we ne'er got to spot Arnie arsenic King Conan.

Clearly, Arnie wanted King Conan to happen. So what went wrong? A 2023 nonfiction by the Daily Telegraph revealed astatine slightest 2 King Conan scripts were astatine assorted points successful circulation. One was by Conan manager John Milius, who seemingly claimed helium was blocked by The Matrix’s Wachowskis, who “had vague plans to enactment their idiosyncratic rotation connected Howard.” Those plans ne'er went anywhere.

The different publication was by Fast and the Furious writer Chris Morgan, but it was canceled successful 2017 owed to acold feet amongst executives. “Our instrumentality was Conan, 30 years later, a communicative similar the Clint Eastwood Unforgiven,” Morgan revealed. “It was truthful awesome. Ultimately, the fund was big; the workplace was not truly definite of the title, and the relevance successful the marketplace. They ended up letting it go.”

But determination were much caller talks, too. Two years ago, Schwarzenegger told The Hollywood Reporter that a Conan sequel had been "pending" for a decade, expressing vexation astatine existent rights holder Fredrik Malmberg.

"It’s been pending for the past 10 years," helium said. "[Fredrik] Malmberg owns the rights. He comes to maine and says, 'Oh, I person a woody with Netflix,' and erstwhile we inquire Netflix, they don’t cognize thing astir it. It’s 1 of those brainsick things. I anticipation helium figures it out. I deliberation you bash it similar Unforgiven, wherever you play the age. There’s a large publication retired determination that John Milius wrote, and others person written one. The communicative is there. There are directors who privation to bash it. But helium has the rights, and until helium sells the rights for 1 oregon 2 movies, oregon for the franchise, there’s thing you tin bash astir it."

The extremity of Conan the Barbarian sets up a King Conan sequel, but it ne'er happened.

Malmberg took to societal media to respond to Arnie's Netflix claims, saying: “We spent 3 years with Netflix and talked to them astir Arnold respective times. We are present moving with a large filmmaker who is large and a existent Conan fan. Will stock much erstwhile I tin by Crom!”

Since then, nothing. Is Arnie, who is conscionable a fewer years distant from his 80th birthday, present excessively aged present to play King Conan? Whatever happens, helium tin look backmost connected Conan with pride. After Conan the Barbarian exploded, Arnie went connected to prima successful James Cameron’s Terminator, his planetary fame secured.

What Conan fans are getting is simply a caller Red Sonja movie, whose debut trailer came retired past week. As for King Conan starring Arnie, possibly this 1 volition spell down arsenic the 1 that got away.

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