Schwarzenegger Prepping For “King Conan”

Turns out the “King Conan” project that 78-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger teased the other week isn’t just a pipe dream, it’s real and has real momentum.

The National Enquirer (via The New York Post) reports that the Austrian Oak is currently undergoing intense physical training in preparation for the role – aiming to better improve his physique and “really looking like a legendary barbarian-slash-king” while still keeping an eye on his health.

Schwarzenegger has dealt with several serious heart-related health issues over the years due to his family’s genetics. That has led to multiple open-heart surgeries over the past thirty years. He’s also had a hip replacement and assorted joint issues.

While talk of a new “Conan the Barbarian” project has swirled for many years, it still came as a surprise nearly three weeks ago when Arnold himself revealed filmmaker Chris McQuarrie had been hired to write and direct the film.

At the time, Schwarzenegger describes it thus: “With King Conan, its a great old story that Conan was forty 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 last appeared in films in 2019’s “Terminator: Dark Fate,” though did recently film the Xmas action-comedy “The Man With the Bag” due out later this year.

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