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Arnold Schwarzenegger is back. The former governor of California and action movie star will star in an animated TV show, comic book series and movie called, get this: The Governator.

Schwarzenegger officially announced his return to entertainment at a press conference at MipTV in Cannes. The plan is to release the cartoon TV series and comic books first and then to round things out with a feature-length animated production.

The Governator features a fictionalized Schwarzenegger who steps down from his role as governor of California in order to fight crime. Stan Lee (X-Men, Spider-man, The Fantastic Four) is developing the project alongside Andy and Amy Heyward of A Squared Entertainment.

The series is expected to debut sometime in 2012 and German-based Your Family Entertainment is handling the world sales rights. Looking at the trailer, it seems like a throw-back to the late-eighties, early-nineties Saturday morning cartoons. Whether or not that style will resonate with younger fans remains to be seen.

The Hollywood Reporter noted that Schwarzenegger also said he would be returning to live-action films, though no specific projects were named. Could a Junior 2 be in the works?

Check out the trailer for The Governator cartoon and let us know how epic or awful you think this looks in the comments. (We’re voting “epic” ourselves for the camp value alone.)

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I love Arnold, but this seems like a horrible idea.

And Stan Lee, why don't you make anything good anymore? This has Striperella written all over it.

And maybe I'm being too logical here, but why is he called the Governator? He's no longer governor in the toon and I'm assuming his true identity is a secret, which it isn't when you put 2 and 2 together. Oh well, I guess I'm just being overly analytical. Maybe it'll be great. At least I can take comfort in the fact that we have an action cartoon on the air instead of another addition to the endless amount of un-funny cartoons that pollute television and melt the brains of young children.

LITTLE OF BATMAN, MATRIX, IRON MAN, TERMINATOR, TRANSFORMERS..

DID I MISS SOMETHING?

ANIMATION IS BETTER THAN THE HUB G.I. JOE OR TRANSFORMERS. NOW LET'S SEE IF THE STORY HOLDS.


WE TALKED ABOUT THIS MOVE OF HIS AT WORK. GOOD WAY TO GET BACK IN THE GOOD GRACIOUS OF HIS FANS ESPECIALLY CONCERNING HOLLYWOOD. HE IS AN OLD GUY.. PUSHING LIKE 60. SO ACTION MOVIES WOULD NOT DO HIM GOOD.


SO WILL GIVE IT A TRY. JUST THAT BY THE LOOK OF THE KIDS AND THE MILK TRUCK MIGHT BE SUITED FOR ANOTHER GENERATION.

KIDDYFIED.

This would be good, if the music was written and performed by Arnocorp.

khoroshen wrote:

This would be good, if the music was written and performed by Arnocorp.

seconded!

The Governator cartoon is real, soon to be a video game

www.joystiq.com/2011/04/05/the-governato...-to-be-a-video-game/

HEHEHE

YEAH, ARNOLD BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT HERE IN CALI ALREADY.


PROBLEM I SEE IS THAT HE IS VERY OLD TO BE MOVING AROUND LIKE THAT IN A MOVIE... IF THEY MAKE ONE. UNLESS THEY JUST ANIMATE HIS FACE IN THERE SOMEHOW.

This is the WORST PIECE OF $HIT I have ever seen in my life, and I have seen eps. of Power Rangers!

HEHEHE.

Interview: Arnold Schwarzenegger on The Governator