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No Arnie Cameo Planned for ‘Predators’… Yet
Late last week the news hit the web that Robert Rodriguez had ”reached out to Arnold Schwarzenegger” in recent days to cameo as Dutch in Predators – 20th Century Fox and Troublemaker Studios’ Predator remake – and that it had been a one way conversation. This afternoon Rodriguez e-mailed AICN to deny the earlier confirmed story (ah the internet!), read on to see what he had to say.
Robert Rodriguez writes in to Aint it Cool News:
“Online news is amazing, much more exciting than real life!
There are so many sites saying that I’m actively pursuing Arnold!
Feels like all i have to do is sit here, and let the websites do the work!
Actually, what probably happened is someone conjured that up because of my 1994 draft, that had Dutch as a main character. And then it probably just built from there.
But no, we’re still writing a new script, and although I know Arnold personally and he’s the coolest person on the planet, I have not contacted him about this at all at this time.
As promised, I’ll keep you posted on such developments since Predator is such a fan favorite.
But then again, he could very well have told someone he’d be into it. Who knows?
Personally, I haven’t heard anything. But it’s still early in the day.
-R”
While this comes straight from the horses mouth, writers, directors and producers have been known to lie to no end to keep a secret (Rob Zombie anyone?). While he denies any truth to the rumor NOW, it doesn’t mean he isn’t planning on it in the future (semantics). I’ve gone through this same bull sh*t here on B-D on numerous occasions and I hope that Arnold makes a cameo just so Moviehole.net can scream, “Told you so!” I’d smoke a cig and shoot a few rounds in the air to that!
In the wake of last year’s box office hit Insidious: The Red Door, Sony has announced tonight that the next installment in the Insidious franchise has been dated for 2025 release.
You can expect the untitled next movie in theaters August 29, 2025.
Deadline notes in their report tonight that this particular project is NOT the previously announced spinoff movie Thread: An Insidious Tale, which doesn’t yet have a release date.
Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani will star in Thread: An Insidious Tale.
Director James Wan’s original Insidious movie in 2011 was followed by Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), Insidious: The Last Key (2018), and last year’s Insidious: The Red Door, which became the highest grossing movie in the entire franchise thus far.
Needless to say, this franchise still has a lot of life left in it. Stay tuned for more.
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