Arnold Schwarzenegger’s New Spy Series From ‘Scorpion’ Creator Lands At Netflix
By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2020 7:30 am EST
Deadline has word on the Arnold Schwarzegger spy series landing at Netflix. Though the deal is still being worked out, Netflix would give the project a script-to-series order, which means the streaming service would skip the pilot stage and start making a full season for the series if they like the script enough.
Details on the show’s plot are slim, but it’s been described as a global spy adventure with a father and daughter at the center of the story. In a perfect world, this would be a True Lies series that brought back Eliza Dushku to work with Schwarzenegger, but James Cameron is too busy trying to drown people for the Avatar sequels.
Monica Barbaro, who has appeared in Chicago P.D. and crossed over into Chicago Justice, is attached to play Schwarzenegger’s daughter. It seems like she’s on the rise with a role in the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, as well as Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas series. Joining Schwarzenegger in a major Netflix series will certainly help raise her profile even more.
Aside from two Terminator movies, Schwarzenegger has limited his recent appearances to a couple low key releases like Maggie and Killing Gunther, but with a full-fledged action series like this, it appears he’s eager to get back in the spotlight. The actor just recently underwent heart surgery to have his aortic valve replaced at the Cleveland Clinic medical center in Ohio, but the procedure went well and he’s doing fine. Hopefully it will give him plenty more years to keep his action status alive.
