Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Teaming Up for a James Bond-Style Action Comedy

Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping to work with Danny DeVito again on the Twins sequel that was in development, but that project ended up being canceled after director Ivan Reitman passed away. Schwarzenegger previously shared how bummed out he was about that and how Jason Reitman shut down the project.

Well, even though the Triplets movie isn’t happening, Schwarzenegger recently revealed that he’s working on making a James Bond-style action comedy with Danny Devito! Before he gets to that, though, he talks about his funny side. He tells The Arnold Fans:

“It’s interesting because I always felt, in my whole life, that there’s a funny side to me, and an intense side, a serious side, a casual side and all those different sides, but in the beginning, because of my physical developments, no one would want me to do anything funny. They just wanted me to kick ass. They said, ‘This is an action star’ after I came out with Conan. I was the only one who was physically developed like that.

“Then everyone copied me and came in and started getting muscular and we created a whole action genre. So when I said to the people in the studio business that I would like to do comedy, they said, ‘Are you stupid, you think we are going to invest in comedy? We have a rule: don’t fix what isn’t broken. We are making a lot of money with you in action movies, so why would we switch over to comedy?’ So it was a ‘No.’ Only when Ivan Reitman came along and said, ‘I would like to do Twins with you and with Danny DeVito, and then the movie made more money than all the action movies, that’s when all the studios suddenly woke up and said, ‘Yeah, let’s give him a chance with comedies.’ SO then we did Kindergarten Cop, Junior, True Lies and all those other movies so, yeah, now, it continues on [FUBAR and with Danny DeVito].” 

The actor then went on to talk about his project with DeVito. He doesn’t offer many details, but it’s definitely a film project that he’s excited about:

“I’m finally doing regularly the things that I was meant for. I can do both [action and comedy] and this Danny DeVito project will be one of those projects where you see over-the-top action—James Bond kind of things, but also very funny.” 

It’ll be fun to see Schwarzenegger and DeVito team up for another movie, and this one sounds like it could be a really fun project! I hope that it actually gets off the ground! Would you want to see these two actors star in an action comedy together?