Arnie will be back … as ‘The Governator’

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London Mayor Boris Johnson and Schwarzenegger pose for pictures during a photocall in London yesterday. Schwarzenegger met Johnson yesterday to exchange ideas on how to drive forward markets for low and zero emission technologies

Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to showbiz as “The Governator”, a comic book and cartoon superhero who fights crime, helps the needy and exposes corruption, the former California governor and action movie star has revealed.The Austrian-born muscle-man, who left the California governor’s office this January after a two-term limit, told Entertainment Weekly that he was working with comic book legend Stan Lee to develop the character that will mix the real life of the actor/politician with the superhuman exploits of the characters he’s played in films.“It takes my entire career, if it’s body building, if it’s acting, if it’s the governorship and combines it into one,” Schwarzenegger said in a video interview posted on Entertainment Weekly’s site. “The Governator is designed to fight crime, to fight natural disasters – this guy will jump and solve the problems.”Lee said that in the series, Schwarzenegger decides to become a crime fighter after leaving the governor’s office and builds a Batman-like Arnold Cave as a “secret high-tech crime-fighting centre” battling the evil organisation “Gangsters Imposters Racketeers Liars & Irredeemable Ex-cons” (or G.I.R.L.I.E. Men), Lee said.Schwarzenegger said that he would have preferred to run for president than become a cartoon character, but the US Constitution does not allow him to run for the highest office since he’s foreign-born.“Otherwise, I wouldn’t be standing here in a leather jacket, I’d be dressed up in a suit,” he said.