It remains to be seen how the separation will affect Schwarzenegger's next big project: A comic book and cartoon called The Governator, based on his life. According to an Entertainment Weekly report about Schwarzenegger's post-governor career, The Governator was supposed to include Shriver as a character:
The man who was recently in charge of the world's eighth-largest economy will be turning himself into a cartoon character. And not just any cartoon character, but the Governator, a sunglasses-wearing superhero with an Austrian accent who'll be at the center of an ambitious, kid-friendly multimedia comic-book and animated TV series codeveloped by no less a hero maker than Stan Lee. ''The Governator is going to be a great superhero, but he'll also be Arnold Schwarzenegger,'' the 88-year-old co-creator of Spider-Man explains. ''We're using all the personal elements of Arnold's life. We're using his wife [Maria Shriver]. We're using his kids. We're using the fact that he used to be governor. Only after he leaves the governor's office, Arnold decides to become a crime fighter and builds a secret high-tech crime-fighting control center under his house in Brentwood.''
Then again, the plans for The Governator may have offered an early sign that the Schwarzenegger-Shriver marriage was on the rocks. EW also reports:
Schwarzenegger, however, confessed that, as of six weeks ago, Shriver was unaware she was going to be a character on the show. "I have never had a conversation with Maria about any of this," the former governor said. "It will be a big surprise for her."
Read the full story at Entertainment Weekly.
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