Arnold Schwarzenegger & Liam Hemsworth To Lead The Kellys

It’s been confirmed that Terminator actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth are set to star together in the Amazon MGM Studios project, The Kellys, scheduled to be available for streaming via Prime Video. Brad Peyton will direct the action flick, credited for San Andreas and Rampage, and will be working with screenwriter Tze Chun.

The Kellys will focus on Jack Kelly, a NYC cop who has fallen from grace, yet must bounce back when his wife is taken hostage in a terrorist attack targeting an old armoury building. His mission to rescue her finds him forced to align with her loved ones, whom he “fears most to save her“.

This film will see Schwarzenegger work with MGM once again, following Adam Shankman’s The Man with the Bag. The action star and governor is also scheduled to appear in a new King Conan installment, a follow-up to 1982’s Conan the Barbarian by filmmaker John Milius and 1984’s Conan the Destroyer by Richard Fleischer.

“They just hired a fantastic writer/director who did Tom Cruise’s last four movies. They just hired him to write and direct King Conan,” Schwarzenegger shared in March. “Now, what they do is that they write the part. They don’t write them like I’m forty years old; you write it to be age-appropriate. I’ll still go in there and kick some ass, but it will be different.”

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Meanwhile, Hemsworth has just appeared in Susannah Grant’s Lonely Planet, a romantic drama also starring Laura Dern, which debuted on Netflix. The actor has also recently stepped off season four and five of The Witcher, as Geralt of Rivia, a role he took over from Man of Steel star Henry Cavill, alongside Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan.

Peyton’s latest filmmaking credit was 2024’s Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, and Mark Strong. He is also set to direct an untitled live-action Bakugan film.

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