King of the homoerotic action movie Arnold Schwarzenegger (DVDs) is set to return to the big screen as Harry Tasker – a James Bond-esque spy with pumped up biceps bigger than his head – in True Lies 2.
With James Cameron (DVDs) directing and most of the original cast at least ready to talk about stepping back on board, The Guvernator couldn’t resist an opportunity to kill yet more evil terrorists.
Of course these are movie terrorists that speak an obliging amount of English so Arnie won’t really need to kill them. Not with a ballot box close to hand anyway.
The original True Lies came out in 1994, just a year before Bond comeback film Goldeneye (DVDs) hit town. It was a shed-load of laughs too. Though Cameron was still in his saggy-middle stage after Terminator 2: Judgement Day so it never got the repeated bank holiday viewings it deserved.
We’re excited about a sequel because Arnie can no longer cut it as an action star unless any kind of irony is employed.
He’ll either be out of breath in thirty seconds chasing some villain up a subway, or he’ll be trying not to look out of breath chasing some villain up a subway. Either way it’ll be comedy gold.
However, as we feared it’s not all fun and games.
"The script is written, but as you know, after 9/11 happened, Cameron was worried" Arnie told IGN Filmforce in 2003 "there’s an airplane scene – a terrific airplane scene – that didn’t have anything to do with the terrorism that we had in 9/11, but it was a great fight scene inside the plane while the plane goes down and this kind of thing."
Is the world ready for a comedy action movie that has even the slightest nod to 9/11? We’d suggest, no. Seems as though anyone involved with an ounce of sense agreed.
"It was a very important moment in the movie, and he felt like he can’t do that and therefore has to rewrite it… These things take a long time."
It doesn’t take two years to rewrite a screenplay, no matter what the hiccup is. Though with Schwarzenegger spending most of his days canvassing terrified voters in his Humvee and Cameron prodding around underwater looking for goldfish it’s amazing this project ever got the green light.
Just so long as they can get Bill Paxton (DVDs) back on board that’s all we care. Thanks to his inspired pick-up ramblings we’ll never look at a Corvette (Books/Cars) in the same way again.
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[Story by Chris Laverty]
