Arnold Schwarzenegger Starring in ‘Breakout’

Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be spending less time on cinema screens these days, his last major release happening in 2019 (though since that was ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’, we can imagine him wanting to take a break). But he’s making moves to snatch a starring role again, agreeing to lead new action thriller ‘Breakout’.

Scott Waugh, who has made movies including ‘Act of Valor’, ‘Need for Speed’ and the upcoming ‘The Expendables 4’ (which seemingly features almost every action icon bar Schwarzenegger), is on to call the shots for the new film.

Schwarzenegger here will play Terry Reynolds. When his stepson, Daniel, is framed and sentenced to 25 years in a foreign country, Reynolds recruits some old friends to help makes a daring jailbreak to save him, hoping to overcome an overzealous prison warden in a race against time to avoid capture and flee the country.

It’s not like Schwarzenegger doesn’t have experience breaking out of prisons –– he did, after all, star in the first ‘Escape Plan’ alongside Sylvester Stallone, but this one promises to be a little less ridiculous.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Captain Benjamin “Ben” Richards in ‘The Running Man.’

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This is not the first time the movie has been in active development, as ‘The Call’s Richard D’Ovidio wrote the screenplay, in cahoots with his regular collaborator (and wife) Nicole D’Ovidio back in 2015.

Then, rapper-turned-filmmaker RZA was attached to direct at a time when he was looking to make as many films as possible following ‘The Man with the Iron Fists’. But it has since lingered in limbo, not even getting as far as the casting stage. Back then, the setting was Bangladesh, though some elements appear to have changed in the story.

This time, things appear to be going much more smoothly given the addition of Arnie and the fact that the shoot is due to kick off this year in Eastern Europe.

But if that’s not enough Schwarzenegger in your life, he has a couple of other projects headed our way –– cinema-wise, he’s back as the president in action comedy ‘Kung Fury 2’, which doesn’t yet have a release date for the States.

Before that, he’ll be on our TV screens in Netflix’s ‘FUBAR’, in which he plays Luke Brunner, who has kept the truth of his status as an ace CIA agent for decades. He’s anticipating retirement (and looking to win the affections of his divorced wife back), only to learn that his daughter Emma (‘Top Gun: Maverick’s Monica Barbaro) is also an agent and is now in danger undercover with a villain that Luke has dealt with in the past). Cue an awkward team-up that reveals other family secrets and results in lots of things exploding. Think ‘True Lies’ but with a slightly different family dynamic. That will be on screens on May 25th.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day.’

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