Out promoting his new film, Sabotage, Arnold Schwarzenegger obviously took time to chime in on the upcoming Terminator: Genesis, which will mark his 4th time (5th if you count his CGI'ed face in Terminator Salvation) playing the famous 'cybernetic organism'.
It's almost astonishing to think the original film came out 30 years ago this October, but here we are with the legendary action star still going strong and committed to staying as the face of the franchise.
*This interview was conducted by the great folks over at Collider so I just wanted to give them the proper acknowledgement and thanks before posting anything.*
Schwarzenegger on why he decided to return to the franchise:
I think that it’s just so wild to have a franchise that has been around for that long, and then after 30 years, to get asked again to be the only character in a movie that is the same character is unheard of, in movie history. You always switch out, like with James Bond and Batman. They have new characters there. But, not here. That, to me, is an extraordinary situation and a great opportunity. Of course, I was honored when I was asked to come back and play the character with Sarah Connor. It was the same when Universal called and said, “We want to do the sequel to Twins.” That’s 25 years later, after it came out. And 34 or 35 years later, after doing Conan, they’ve come back and said that they want me to play Conan. Not to be one of the villains in Conan, like the usually do, but to play Conan.
It’s great because I’ve stayed in physical shape, and they see me in different movies and on social media and with all the stuff that I do. I’m still on the cover of the muscle magazines. So, they say, “We can still have this guy fight with a sword for 10 hours a day, do horseback riding, and all of these things. We can have him star in Conan.” It’s really unusual. That’s never, ever happened, that I’m aware of, in the history of these kinds of things, where you can lead a franchise like that and be the star, at this age. That just shows you that, if you have the attitude of a young person and you work like a young person and you keep your body in shape, and if you believe that you can do it, then you can actually make other people also believe that you can do it.
On if the film will keep its current title and what fans can expect from this new entry:
I don’t know what the final title is going to be. As you can see with Sabotage, when I read the script, it was called Ten. You never know. Today, studios switch titles because everything has been tested. They’ll give an audience five titles, and then they’ll pick one. ButTerminator is going to have the exact same feel. The way it reads, it has the same feel of Terminator 2. It’s big. There’s hardcore action and it has some really great visual effects in there, but not over the top. It’s not a Thor type of movie, even though it’s the same director. It has good special effects, but just enough to say, “Wow, where did that come from? How did they do that?”
Besides the fact that it seems this new film is going for a style similar to T2 along with wanting to keep the action practical (like Thor: The Dark World), it's great to hear a guy like Schwarzenegger speak so confident about his abilities even at his age. I strongly believe this guy is going to prove a lot of people wrong (like he's been doing his whole life).
Source: Collider (thanks again guys)
Wed, March 26, 2014 
