Despite now being 78 years old, action superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger is showing no signs of slowing down, as he is in talks to return to three of his most iconic movie franchises: Conan the Barbarian, Commando, and Predator.
As reported by Variety, this reveal came via the 2026 Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, an annual multi-sport bodybuilding event named after Schwarzenegger, where the star shared that he’s in for a busy few years ahead, with studios calling him back to reprise some of his most iconic roles of yesteryear.
“They did an additional Predator, and the director [Dan Trachtenberg] has been doing a great job of that. Now, he wants me to be in the next Predator. We’ve talked about it,” Schwarzenegger explained. “As a matter of fact, Fox Studios has kind of rediscovered Arnold. They’ve come to me and said, ‘We want you to do Predator, we just got a script for you to do Commando 2.'”
While this news was enough to incite much excitement and applause from the convention audience alone, Schwarzenegger added that there’s more in store, with the reveal of a sequel to 1982’s Conan the Barbarian, and that he would also star in it.
According to Schwarzenegger, the studio has already hired a writer/director for the sequel, King Conan. “Now, what they do is that they write the part,” the actor said. “They don’t write them like I’m 40 years old. You write it to be age-appropriate. I’ll still go in there and kick some ass, but it will be different. “
“With King Conan, it’s a great old story that Conan was 40 years as king, and now he gets forced out of the kingdom, and there’s conflict, of course, but somehow he comes back, and there’s all kinds of madness, violence, magic and creatures and stuff like that,” Schwarzenegger added. “And now, of course, there’s all kinds of special effects. The studio has plenty of money to make those movies really big, so I’m looking forward to all of those projects.”
Schwarzenegger portrayed the titular hero in the 1982 original, alongside reprising the role in 1984’s Conan the Destroyer, marking his first major action movie franchise. In 1985, the star would go on to play another iconic action role in Commando, followed by kick-starting the legendary Predator franchise as Dutch in the 1987 original. Now, almost 40 years later, the star is looking to return to all three franchises, showing that age is nothing but another challenge for him to overcome.
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