An Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic Is Finding New Life On Netflix

There’s an entire generation of movie fans out there who won’t remember the halcyon days of the action genre when Arnold Schwarzenegger mercilessly gunned down everything in sight with a well-placed quip following soon afterwards, and there’s even folks who won’t recall that he served as the Governor of California as part of an incredible life story that’s inevitably going to lead to a biopic at some stage if they can find an actor muscular enough.

Schwarzenegger is taking his first tentative steps into the streaming business by signing on to headline a globetrotting spy series for Netflix, which marks his first-ever recurring role in an episodic project, while several entries from his back catalogue have found new life on the platform recently including the risible Terminator Genisys, forgotten comedy Killing Gunther and David Ayer’s gritty thriller Sabotage.

However, only a couple of days after being added to the library, arguably his best film has crashed right into the Top 10 most-watched list, just in time for its 30th anniversary. As a sci-fi epic, action blockbuster, sequel and game-changer, Terminator 2 is quite simply one of the all-time greats that cast a seismic shadow on the industry by taking the CGI revolution to another level and delivering top notch set pieces on the grandest scale.

It’s a phenomenal piece of work, with Cameron’s cast, crew and effects team all working at the top of their game to deliver a thrilling escapade that never gets old, no matter how many times you’ve seen it already. The subsequent four sequels and reboots can’t hold a candle to Terminator 2, and Arnold Schwarzenegger has still never managed to star in anything better.

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Ethan Hawke Almost Played Will Smith’s Role In Independence Day

Ethan Hawke has never been particularly interested in the blockbuster business, with the actor having starred in just two projects during his 36-year career that cost over $100 million to produce, and even then his appearance in the Total Recall remake was restricted to the Director’s Cut. However, things could have turned out drastically different in the mid-1990s, had be ended up in either Batman Forever or Independence Day.

Once Michael Keaton declined the opportunity to return for Joel Schumacher’s threequel, Hawke turned down the chance to replace him as the Dark Knight, something he later admitted he regretted immensely. On top of that, Roland Emmerich has revealed in a new interview celebrating the 25th anniversary of Independence Day that the studio were pushing for Hawke to be cast as Captain Steven Hiller, due to concerns over Will Smith’s commercial viability.

“Ethan Hawke was on our list too, but I thought at that time he was too young. It was pretty clear it had to be Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. That was the combo we thought. The studio said, ‘No, we don’t like Will Smith. He’s unproven. He doesn’t work in international markets’. It was pretty shortly before the shoot and we still hadn’t locked in Will and Jeff. I put my foot down. ‘Universal people are calling every day, so give me these two actors or I move over there’. I don’t think it would have been a possibility, but it was a great threat.”

Of course, Emmerich’s sci-fi disaster epic proved to be Smith’s breakthrough role and his chemistry with Jeff Goldblum powers the third act of the movie as the odd couple jet off into outer space to save the world, so it was the right call for the filmmaker to stand his ground. Hawke is a fantastic actor, but he doesn’t possess anything close to the former Fresh Prince’s natural charisma and undeniable star power, but very few people in Hollywood do, so it’s hardly an insult losing out on a role to the man who went on to be dubbed the ‘King of Summer’.

Instead of Batman Forever and Independence Day, Hawke continued to carve out a path as one of indie cinema’s most daring and versatile talents, a road he’s still traveling on to this day in between his guest spots in various B-tier genre thrillers.

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Patty Jenkins Says She Has Lots Of Creative Freedom On Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Patty Jenkins has been open in the past about the battles she faced with Warner Bros. during post-production on Wonder Woman, but it sounds like she won’t be facing anywhere near the same level of pushback as she gears up to a galaxy far, far away when Star Wars: Rogue Squadron begins production.

Naturally, some fans might be a little concerned about Jenkins being given increased oversight looking at the overlong and frequently bloated mess that was Wonder Woman 1984, but being told you’re getting autonomy on Star Wars is a lot different from having it actually happen. Kathleen Kennedy infamously rules the franchise with an iron fist, and there’s been no shortage of filmmakers that have signed on to tackle projects set in the expansive sci-fi sandbox, only to bail out or get fired shortly afterwards.

Jenkins might have the opportunity to tell exactly the sort of story that she wants, but in a new interview she also admitted that working with Lucasfilm is entirely different to anything she’s experienced in her career before, so let’s hope that it doesn’t mimic her stint under the ever-watchful eye and notoriously heavy hands of the Warner Bros. top brass.

“It’s going amazing. I had been on it already for six months before I even announced that, so we’re pretty deep into it. We’re finishing a script, crewing up, and it’s all going wonderful. I’m so excited about the story and excited that we’re the next chapter of Star Wars, which is such a responsibility and such an opportunity to really start some new things. It’s really exciting in that way.”

It’s an entirely different way of working. I’m on the phone with all of them and doing Zoom meetings with everybody involved in Star Wars all the time. I’m fairly free to do the story that we want to do, but you really need to know who’s done what, who’s doing what, where it goes and how it works, and what designs have been done before. It’s a whole other way of working that I’m getting up to speed on.”

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All we know about Star Wars: Rogue Squadron so far is that Jenkins will direct from a script by Love and Monsters co-writer Matthew Robinson, with the intergalactic fighter pilot epic coming to theaters in December 2023. Based on her comments, though, it sounds like things are progressing nicely behind the scenes, and her effort could prove to be pivotal to the long term future of the property as the first theatrical release to follow the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga.

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