Schwarzenegger takes matters into his own hands
and I’m not just talking about how to deal with his zombie daughter.
You’re watching Beyond The Trailer’s review of Maggie...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is best known for being
a champion bodybuilder, a movie star and The
Governator. How did he manage such a long
and diverse career path? Being a savvy businessman,
that’s how. He knew bodybuilding was his
ticket out of Austria, aggressively used his
success there to gain entry into Hollywood,
and then in turn used that success to propel
him into politics. Yes, nobody’s this lucky,
Schwarzenegger made his own luck - including
the realization that the 2003 California recall
election was wide open, and that he’d be
a big fish in a small pond filled not just
with small fish but with tiny unknown guppies.
Plus during all these high profile endeavors,
he also had many successful business ventures
on the side. But the bravado that made him
a star professionally came to haunt him personally.
While there had ALWAYS been rumors about his
philandering, pretty much from Day One, things
eventually got so bad and so public that he
suffered an embarrassing divorce from Maria
Shriver in 2011. The result was his personal
and professional lives SHATTERED. So while
Schwarzenegger had always assumed he could
return to movies after his terms as The Governator,
now it appeared it wouldn’t be so easy.
The Last Stand and Sabotage both bombed at
the box office, the lowest grossing films
of his entire career. Thankfully Sylvester
Stallone tried to help his former peer, and
thanks to strong overseas appeal Escape Plan
and The Expendables movies did okay. But Schwarzenegger
refuses to give up! Sure he has Terminator
Genisys, but Terminator 3 proved that franchise
isn’t indestructible. So he’s returning
to producing, something he hasn’t done since
Last Action Hero and The 6th Day. And it didn’t
turn out so good those times, but this new
one? Maggie? It seems like a pretty solid
move. It’s ultra low-budget, just four point
five million, and it hopes to capitalize on
the current zombie craze - after all, The
Walking Dead continues to be one of the most
watched shows on television, and its most
recent season just wrapped. Anyone suffering
from zombie withdrawal might just check out
Maggie... And the film even has a little prestige
to it, as the script hails from the hallowed
Black List and Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin
co-stars. So has Schwarzenegger PUMPED YOU
UP
for Maggie?!
