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Arnold Schwarzenegger will try serious acting. Maybe.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to strap on the serious weaponry and blow people away on behalf of Skynet in a fifth ‘Terminator’ movie. But before that happens, he could don a more dramatic mask.

So says Vulture, which calls ‘Cry Macho,’ a drama from ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ director Brad Furman and ‘Million Dollar Baby’ producer Al Ruddy, Schwarzenegger’s next movie. Based on a novel by N. Richard Nash, it centers on an aging horse trainer who tries to get back in with his boss by kidnapping the boss’ son from his ex-wife (in a ‘Ruthless People’ turn, his ex-wife doesn’t want the son back).

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The site calls the film Schwarzenegger’s ‘first post-gubernatorial project.’ Of course, things frequently don’t happen that quickly for projects like this. There’s no financing yet for the independent film, which will be seeking funds from foreign sales at the Cannes Film Festival in May, an event ahead of which this news is serendipitously surfacing. And Furman does have a history of getting a bit ahead of himself. (Messages for Ruddy and Furman were not immediately returned Friday morning.)

If ‘Cry Macho’ does get made, is it a good choice for Arnold? In the recent history of actor comebacks, a shift to serious gears has been an effective way to get one going; Mickey Rourke, for one, executed it to perfection in ‘The Wrestler.’

Of course, that presupposes you have the chops to pull it off. And even if you could, sometimes it’s still better to take on a big summer blockbuster. No matter how good Robert Downey Jr. would have been in the smallest indie circa 2008, it didn’t hurt that he was seen by millions in ‘Iron Man.’

With no script or screenwriter for ‘Terminator 5’ and no money as yet for ‘Cry Macho,’ it will still be a little bit before we see Schwarzenegger back on the big screen. And a while before the Governator decides what comeback path to take.

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--Steven Zeitchik

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