Scandal won’t terminate Schwarzenegger’s toon show (UPDATED)

The Gov­er­na­tor

Despite his pater­nity scan­dal, Ah-nuld will be baaaaack.

Pro­duc­ers of an ani­mated project by Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger — in which he plays a super­hero with a secret iden­tity that he hides from his wife Maria — say that the upcom­ing series The Gov­er­na­tor will proceed.

The for­mer Cal­i­for­nia gov­er­nor, who fin­ished his term in Jan­u­ary, has acknowl­edged father­ing a child with a mem­ber of his house­hold staff.

Schwarzeneg­ger voices the lead char­ac­ter in The Gov­er­na­tor, co-produced by A2 Enter­tain­ment, Archie Comics and Stan Lee’s Pow! Enter­tain­ment. Although it’s still wait­ing to be sold to a United States net­work, the series has already been sold to sev­eral for­eign countries.

The ex-politician stars as a super­hero with a crime-fighting hide­away under­neath his Los Ange­les home. Schwarzeneg­ger “cre­ates a secret iden­tity beneath his home — so secret that even his wife, Maria, and kids are unaware, a super­hero liv­ing a dou­ble life, who’s also a devoted fam­ily man who needs to make it home for din­ner every night,” says the news release for The Gov­er­na­tor.

The series will not be altered, said A2 Enter­tain­ment CEO Andy Heyward.

“A2’s Gov­er­na­tor ani­mated series and its lore is fic­tional and stands on its mer­its,” Hey­ward said. “Of course, we wish the fam­ily the best in this chal­leng­ing time.”

No net­works have yet com­mit­ted to air­ing the series.

Mean­while, con­tra­dic­tory infor­ma­tion is com­ing from the Schwarzeneg­ger camp. The for­mer Cal­i­for­nia governor’s lawyer said yes­ter­day, “At the request of Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger we asked Cre­ative Artists Agency to inform all his motion pic­ture projects cur­rently under­way or being nego­ti­ated to stop plan­ning until fur­ther notice.”

“Gov­er­nor Schwarzeneg­ger is focus­ing on per­sonal mat­ters and is not will­ing to com­mit to any pro­duc­tion sched­ules or time­lines. This includes Cry Macho, The Ter­mi­na­tor fran­chise and other projects under con­sid­er­a­tion. We will resume dis­cus­sions when Gov­er­nor Schwarzeneg­ger decides,” he continued.

So we shall see…

[Via The Hol­ly­wood Reporter – news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110518/media_nm/us_schwarzenegger_movies_1]

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