They just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise's last four movies. They just hired [Christopher McQuarrie] to write and direct King Conan. He added that the part will be written to be "age-appropriate," where he will "still go in there and kick some ass, but it will be different."
If you're my age and you like watching stuff blow up real good, you know the definitive Arnold Schwarzenegger movie canon. That canon includes a handful of now-established science-fiction masterpieces ("The Terminator," "Terminator 2," "Total Recall"), but it also accommodates for the small handful of low-fidelity masterpieces that became unforgettable thanks to Arnold's sheer force of personality. Arnold made two such films in the year 1987 alone.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in The Running Man faces a totalitarian regime by competing in a deadly television show where the disadvantaged are hunted down, ultimately overthrowing his captors with physical prowess and humor.
