Arnold Schwarzenegger Starring in ‘Breakout’

Scott Waugh is directing the new movie, which will see a man trying to help his stepson escape jail.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sheriff Ray Owens in 'The Last Stand.'

Terminator: Dark Fate’, we can imagine him wanting to take a break). But he’s making moves to snatch a starring role again, agreeing to lead new action thriller ‘Breakout’.

The Expendables 4’ (which seemingly features almost every action icon bar Schwarzenegger), is on to call the shots for the new film.

Schwarzenegger here will play Terry Reynolds. When his stepson, Daniel, is framed and sentenced to 25 years in a foreign country, Reynolds recruits some old friends to help makes a daring jailbreak to save him, hoping to overcome an overzealous prison warden in a race against time to avoid capture and flee the country.

It’s not like Schwarzenegger doesn’t have experience breaking out of prisons –– he did, after all, star in the first ‘Sylvester Stallone, but this one promises to be a little less ridiculous.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Captain Benjamin "Ben" Richards in 'The Running Man.'

RZA history

This is not the first time the movie has been in active development, as ‘The Call’s Richard D’Ovidio wrote the screenplay, in cahoots with his regular collaborator (and wife) Nicole D’Ovidio back in 2015.

Then, rapper-turned-filmmaker The Man with the Iron Fists’. But it has since lingered in limbo, not even getting as far as the casting stage. Back then, the setting was Bangladesh, though some elements appear to have changed in the story.

This time, things appear to be going much more smoothly given the addition of Arnie and the fact that the shoot is due to kick off this year in Eastern Europe.

But if that’s not enough Schwarzenegger in your life, he has a couple of other projects headed our way –– cinema-wise, he’s back as the president in action comedy ‘Kung Fury 2’, which doesn’t yet have a release date for the States.

Before that, he’ll be on our TV screens in True Lies’ but with a slightly different family dynamic. That will be on screens on May 25th.