Schwarzenegger Will Be The Governator

Never one to avoid poking fun at his own reputation (though we sort of wish it hadn’t resulted in L****ast Action Hero), Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting into the spirit of one of his big recent nicknames, announcing that he’ll star in a cartoon series featuring him as a superhero called The Governator.

Yes, his first big casting announcement since leaving the California governor’s office last January is not that he’ll be teaming back up with Sylvester Stallone or James Cameron, but that he’ll work with Stan Lee to produce a ‘toon.

“When I ran for governor back in 2003 and I started hearing people talking about ‘the Governator,’ I thought the word was so cool,” the Austrian Oak tells Entertainment Weekly. “The word Governator combined two worlds: the world of politics and the movie world. And this cartoon brings everything together. It combines the governor, the Terminator, the bodybuilding world, the True Lies…”

Lee, a man who also knows a thing or two about promotion, seems delighted to be getting full access to Arnie’s life for the show. “The Governator is going to be a great superhero, but he’ll also be Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’re using all the personal elements of Arnold’s life. We’re using his wife. We’re using his kids. We’re using the fact that he used to be governor. Only after he leaves the governor’s office, Arnold decides to become a crime fighter and builds a secret high-tech crime-fighting centre under his house in Brentwood.”

He’ll apparently have the full, Batman-style set of toys, including vehicles and power-suits. Oh, and if you were thinking it couldn’t sound more like a ‘70s series, he also has a set of “colourful sidekicks,” including a teenage hacker. All he really needs now is a wacky animal. Wonder what Snarf’s up to these days, besides the new Thundercats animated show…