Friday, April 01, 2011

Schwarzenegger Parlaying Referential Nickname into Cartoon Career


From iwatchstuff, For months, Arnold Schwarzenegger has teased what he might take on as his first part since being free of all those obligations he had when we let the guy from Pumping Iron run an entire state, and now, at last, he's made his announcement: he'll be playing a cartoon superhero version of himself! Because that worked out OK for Hammer, right?

Working with comics legend--and Pamela Anderson cartoon creator--Stan Lee, Schwarzenegger is developing a character cleverly called The Governator. Obviously based on the former governor's nickname (“When I ... started hearing people talking about ‘the Governator,’ I thought the word was so cool,” Schwarzenegger explained of his love for the semi-derisive portmantea), The Governator is planned as both a comic book and a poorly-rendered animated series that Arnold assures us "combines the governor, the Terminator, the bodybuilding world, [and] the True Lies"--the True Lies part no doubt referring to the fact that wife Maria Shriver and their children will also be animated characters, living peacefully in the Brentwood home that serves as a facade for The Governator's subterranean crime-fighting lair. (Note: I'm serious about all this.)

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