We learned about cartoon series The Governator last week, but Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to actual movies is still the subject of immense speculation. A while ago it was reported that he was musing on three potential projects, one of which was his long-mooted war movie With Wings as Eagles. It now transpires that Arnold's other two choices are The Last Stand and **The Tomb.
The Tomb is coming together at Summit Entertainment, with Antoine Fuqua poised to step behind the camera. It involves a designer of high-tech prisons having to escape from one of his own maximum security stockades when he's framed for a crime he didn't commit (sounds like a plan that didn't come together). Arnold's co-Expendable Bruce Willis was in talks for the film at one point, which would have marked a reunion for the director and star of Tears of the Sun. Now though, after several weeks of productive meetings, it sounds like The Tomb is Arnold's for the taking.
But then there's Lionsgate's The Last Stand, the Hollywood debut of Kim Jee-woon, who previously brought us I Saw the Devil and The Good, the Bad and the Weird. Springing from a Blacklist script by Andrew Knauer, it's the story of a small-town sheriff and his inexperienced crew chasing a fugitive Mexican cartel boss in a stolen 200mph Gumpert Apollo. Liam Neeson thought about it for a while, but the offer is now out to Arnold and early discussions are underway.
Fuqua's proven action stylee would seem like a solid fit for Arnold, but we'd have to say we're far more intrigued at the prospect of the Austrian Oak turning out for the thoroughly crazy Jee-woon. Fuqua is busy in the immediate future with **Tupac though, so if The Last Stand can get moving quickly enough, perhaps there's no reason why Arnold can't do both...