Arnold Schwarzenegger Gives an Update on ‘Predator’ and ‘Commando 2’ and Teases a Fight for Conan’s Throne

It’s been nearly 40 years since Arnold Schwarzenegger got Dutch out of that jungle in Predator, and even longer since he played John Matrix in the criminally underrated Commando.

Jimmy Kimmel asked him about returning to both roles Wednesday night, along with a third he’s been chasing for years, King Conan. Schwarzenegger is game. What he’s waiting on are the scripts.

“What’s not on the page is not on the stage,” Schwarzenegger told Kimmel. He said he’s waiting for the scripts “to get perfected and then we go and start shooting those things.”

If the Predator and Commando news sounds familiar, we covered Schwarzenegger’s Predator talks back in March. At the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, he told fans that Prey and Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg wanted him for another Predator. “We’ve talked about it,” Schwarzenegger said. He was even more specific about Commando, recalling that the studio told him, “We just got a script for you to do Commando 2.” Eight months later, he’s still talking about making both. He gave Kimmel no shooting date for either one.

The script has kept Dutch out of a Predator movie before. Schwarzenegger turned down a part in Shane Black’s The Predator. He eventually voiced Dutch in the video game Predator: Hunting Grounds, and an older Dutch turned up in the animated Predator: Killer of Killers. Trachtenberg even had Dutch in an early version of Badlands, as one of the holograms Dek and his brother look through. That’s how close we’ve come to seeing him again in live action.

Of the three movies Kimmel asked about, King Conan has the clearest path to a set. is attached to write and direct, and back in May, Schwarzenegger told TheArnoldFans he expected to shoot in 2027. It would be his third Conan movie, following 1982’s and 1984’s .