Skydance Developing Spy TV Thriller EPed By & Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger From Creator Of ‘Scorpion’
It’s not so much “I’ll be back” as “I’ll be… trying something new!” as Arnold Schwarzenegger heads up his first scripted tv project alongside Skydance Television and the creator of ‘Scorpion’, Nick Santora.
There isn’t a whole lot of information about the show out there at the moment. What we do know is that it is described as an original hourlong spy adventure series, and would centre around a father, played by Schwarzenegger, and his daughter, who has yet to be cast. There is no broadcaster attached to the series right now, but Skydance, who are producing the drama, is expected to pitch it to networks or streaming services soon.
The series has been created by Nick Santora, probably best known as the creator of action drama series ‘Scorpion’, which ran for 4 Seasons. Since then, he EPed and created the Emmy-nominated Quibi drama ‘Most Dangerous Game’ starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz, along with recent ‘The Fugitive’ series starring Kiefer Sutherland and Boyd Holbrook, also for Quibi. Prior to that, he wrote on tv and film such as ‘Vegas’, ‘Prison Break’, and the ‘Punisher: War Zone’ movie. In addition to this series, Santora is also exec producer and showrunner on Amazon Prime’s upcoming series adaptation of Lee Child’s ‘Jack Reacher’ novels.
This project is the first foray into scripted tv drama for Schwarzenegger, who returned to acting following his tenure as Governor of California. Most recently, he reprised his role as the T-800 in ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’, and is next due to play The President in David Sandberg’s martial arts comedy ‘Kung Fury II: The Movie’. He is also signed on to reteam with Danny DeVito in an upcoming sequel to the film ‘Twins’ called ‘Triplets’, which adds Eddie Murphy as the third sibling.
Schwarzenegger has a long relationship with Skydance, who were the people behind the ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ and ‘Terminator Genisys’, along with a number of the ‘Mission: Impossible’ films, ‘True Grit’, ‘World War Z’ and the upcoming ‘Top Gun: Maverick’. On the TV side, they were behind ‘Altered Carbon’, ‘Condor’, and ‘Jack Ryan’, along with the upcoming Apple TV+ series ‘Foundation’ based on the Isaac Asimov novel series.
The currently untitled Schwarzenegger spy adventure series is currently classed as “in development” with no broadcaster attached, but we’ll let you know if and when we hear more!
