Despite all his marital woes temporarily derailing his big screen comeback, Arnold Schwarzenegger doesnt' appear to have come out of the scandal any worse for wear. He still had all the same projects waiting for him, ultimately deciding that South Korean director Kim Ji-Woon's action pic, The Last Stand, would be first on his last. Lionsgate appears to be backing the film and Schwarzenegger pretty heavily, and today they've released a detailed plot synopsis for it...
Schwarzenegger will be starring as Sheriff Owens, a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with failure and defeat after his partner was crippled. After a spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy, the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the hemisphere is hurtling toward the border at 200 mph in a specially outfitted car with a hostage and a fierce army of gang members. He is headed, it turns out, straight for Summerton Junction, where the whole of U.S. law enforcement will have their last opportunity to make a stand and intercept him before he slips across the border forever. At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately accepts responsibility for one of the most daring face offs in cinema history.
Um, yeah, this is definitely a better fit than that teary sounding Cry Macho. Coming off the success and critical acclaim for his latest film, I Saw the Devil(see it now if you haven't!!), Lionsgate is smart to be putting their money behind this potential explosive duo.
