This week’s EW cover story is an exclusive interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about his plan to return to movies and unleash an animated superhero TV series: The Governator. Below is a full three-minute trailer from the project, which teams Ah-nold with comic legend Stan Lee:
He’s been a famous body builder. He’s been a killer cyborg from the future. He’s been Governor of California. And now, in this week’s exclusive cover scoop, Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals his plans for the next phase of his extraordinary career: He’s going be a cartoon superhero, known as The Governator. “When I ran for governor back in 2003 and I started hearing people talking about ‘the Governator,’ I thought the word was so cool,” Schwarzenegger, 63, tells EW in his first press interview since leaving office last January. (Watch an EW-exclusive video of Schwarzenegger talking about the project.) “The word Governator combined two worlds: the world of politics and the movie world. And [this cartoon] brings everything together. It combines the governor, the Terminator, the bodybuilding world, the True Lies…”
The animated TV show and comic book, being co-developed by no less a superhero authority than Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee (pictured, right), won’t be out until next year, but this week EW offers an exclusive early look at Arnold’s cartoon alter-ego. “The Governator is going to be a great superhero, but he’ll also be Arnold Schwarzenegger,” Lee says of the semi-fictional character. “We’re using all the personal elements of Arnold’s life. We’re using his wife [Maria Shriver]. We’re using his kids. We’re using the fact that he used to be governor. Only after he leaves the governor’s office, Arnold decides to become a crime fighter and builds a secret high-tech crime-fighting center under his house in Brentwood.”
Along with the Arnold Cave, the Governator will have a fleet of super vehicles at his disposal, a closet full of “Super Suits” that allow him to fly and perform other super stunts, and a team of colorful sidekicks, such as Zeke Muckerberg, the precocious 13-year-old computer whiz who acts as the Governator’s cybersecurity expert. Naturally, there will also be recurring supervillains — including an evil organization called Gangsters Imposters Racketeers Liars & Irredeemable Ex-cons (or G.I.R.L.I.E. Men, for short). For Schwarzenegger, the cartoon is obviously the next best thing to being President. “I love the idea of a control center below my house with a path so that boats and submarines can go right into the ocean,” he tells EW. “In the cartoon, my house is much closer to the beach than where we live, but, you know, it’s a cartoon.”
Wow that actually looks pretty sweet, though the glasses kill the power suit...
04-05-2011, 02:57 PM
ApocaRUFF
The animation and art resembles that of The Boondocks (from Adult Swim).
Looks pretty cool, though it's obviously pointed towards kids.
04-05-2011, 04:38 PM
Avarwen
LOL that looks like it's going to be to funny might have to give it a go. Glad to see that Schwarzenegger has a sense of humor.
04-05-2011, 04:45 PM
cinderboy
Why 2012 O_o
04-05-2011, 08:31 PM
Bryan
This is an April Fools joke.
Right?
04-05-2011, 08:38 PM
Jaydude
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Originally Posted by Bryan
This is an April Fools joke.
Right?
The quality of the fight scene, I doubt it.
04-05-2011, 08:47 PM
Cy-Kill
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Originally Posted by Bryan
This is an April Fools joke.
Right?
It's April 5th, the articles were written on April 4th. You do know what day April Fool's is?
04-05-2011, 09:23 PM
xBlazex
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Originally Posted by jaydude
Wow that actually looks pretty sweet, though the glasses kill the power suit...
yea it did they should left the sunglasses black
04-05-2011, 09:24 PM
Paladuck
This has got to be a joke lol.
04-05-2011, 09:48 PM
Bryan
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Originally Posted by Cy-Kill
It's April 5th, the articles were written on April 4th. You do know what day April Fool's is?
So if I post a video of The Moon Landing right now, it was created on April 5th, 2011?
04-05-2011, 10:03 PM
ApocaRUFF
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Originally Posted by Bryan
So if I post a video of The Moon Landing right now, it was created on April 5th, 2011?
The video was posted on Youtube on April 4th, and the article about the show was written and published on the 4th.
04-05-2011, 10:20 PM
Bryan
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Originally Posted by ApocaRUFF
The video was posted on Youtube on April 4th, and the article about the show was written and published on the 4th.
I wasn't aware that the Youtube video uploaded was the exclusive source of media that it was released on. I perhaps thought that the trailer was released somewhere else before April 4th and perhaps made its way on Youtube on April 4th.
But since everyone seems to not able to take a joke, I'm saying this show looks like one (a joke).
Sheesh. XO
04-06-2011, 09:11 PM
supersonix9
Lol'd at the 2:21 Matrix move.
04-06-2011, 09:21 PM
Stevz
The best way I can sum up my reaction to this is...
"Remember when I thought an Arnie comeback would rock? :)
