Arnold Schwarzenegger has thanked fans for voting him the best leader in the event of an alien invasion. The 73-year-old action star has faced a seemingly endless stream of fictional big screen challenges over his lengthy career. Although today he’s also known for serving his term limit as governor of California, fans will always know him as the Terminator.
After rising to a comfortable celebrity status as a bodybuilder thanks to nearly three decades of competition, Schwarzenegger became an international star after appearing in 1982’s Conan the Barbarian. The action genre was still relatively nascent at the time, but by the mid 1980s, action films were big business and Schwarzenegger was arguably its greatest star. Films like The Terminator, Predator and The Running Man all kept Schwarzenegger highly relevant. Even by the 1990s, as the action films of the 80s began to be cynically appraised by audiences, Schwarzenegger proved there was still plenty of life left in his career by ruling the box-office with mega-hits, like Terminator 2: Judgement Day and True Lies.
As anyone who has followed the Schwarzenegger’s career over the years, it’s clear that he hasn’t always opted for action films. Nonetheless, today he’s built a solid butt-kicking reputation that’s hard to deny. Exactly how much faith the public has in the superstar recently became even more obvious thanks to a UK survey that asked who should be put in charge of defending Earth should aliens invade. Schwarzenegger topped the list and reacted by thanking the public via his official Twitter account.
Oddly enough, Will Smith, who starred in Independence Day - one of the biggest alien invasion films of all time - didn’t manage to make the top spot. Instead, Smith placed second to Schwarzenegger. The poll involved 2,000 adults, but perhaps what’s most odd about the entire thing is that compared to many other actors, Schwarzenegger hasn’t really had all that much experience with fictional alien invasions. Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise were also featured within the poll’s top five picks, but ultimately the greatest amount of confidence was with the Terminator. Exactly how Schwarzenegger is meant to “lead” some sort of hypothetical resistance against invaders from another planet is unclear, and the idea of a 73-year-old actor and former politician being put in charge of such a scenario is sure to cause more than a few eye rolls. Still, it’s all in good fun and Schwarzenegger seems genuinely pleased by the win.
At present, none of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s upcoming projects involve battling aliens, though he’s certainly got no shortage of intriguing topics to cover. For long-time fans, the second entry in the Twins franchise is hopefully set to find its way out of development hell, and the planned Legend of Conan will hopefully see Schwarzenegger return to his roots at the eponymous barbarian. All told, the action superstar will be very busy in the coming months and years – though not too busy to say "Hasta la vista" to some pesky aliens, should it become necessary to do so.
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