Having been riffing on his “I’ll be back” schtick at every available opportunity since 1984, former ‘politician’ Arnold Schwarzenegger may be about to make good on his word after confirming that he is planning his comeback as an ‘actor’ with Randall Wallace’s WWII drama With Wings As Eagles one of three possible projects.
According to TheArnoldFans – no, really – Arnie describes the role in Wallace’s script as (begin cod-Austrian accent now) “an older soldier, who gets the order at the ending of the war to kill a bunch of kids. But he doesn’t do it and gets them all to safety at the risk of his life and it has all kinds of adventure. This script is based on a true story!”
Having been riffing on his "I'll be back" schtick at every available opportunity since 1984, former 'politician' Arnold Schwarzenegger may be about to make good on his word after confirming that he is planning his comeback as an 'actor' with Randall Wallace's WWII drama With Wings As Eagles one of three possible projects.
According to TheArnoldFans – no, really – Arnie describes the role in Wallace's script as (begin cod-Austrian accent now) "an older soldier, who gets the order at the ending of the war to kill a bunch of kids. But he doesn't do it and gets them all to safety at the risk of his life and it has all kinds of adventure. This script is based on a true story!"{{page_break}}
By that description alone it doesn't sound like much, although bear in mind that you're hearing it from a man for whom powers of description might not be described as a forte ("The public doesn't care about figures" was his response to a question about his economic policies as Governor of the supposedly now near-bankrupt State of California) and writer Wallace has pedigree in the genre – having penned Braveheart and We Were Soldiers – and with leading men of dubious politics – both starred Mel Gibson.
Although Arnie obviously hasn't given up on big action roles, it's interesting to read him admitting that he's at an age where big action sequences will be more of a problem than they used to be and that he's looking to follow Clint Eastwood's example of how to grow old gracefully on-screen. And to those critics who'd be pessimistic about his chances of reviving his career, he'd no doubt tell them to get some guts and stop being girlie men.
Welcome back Arnie. We've missed you.
[via TheArnoldFans]
