Merry Christmas from Hitler

The upcoming Mayor McCheese-directed Terminator movie promises to be a cheap imitation of the original franchise, so naturally instead of re-inventing the robot played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first and second movies and giving it a cool new look, they just found a guy who looks kind of like Arnold.

Roland Kickinger, born in 1968 in Vienna before moving to the United States 13 years ago, has a background, vocal fingerprint and resumé that bear at least superficial similarity to those of Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is perhaps no coincidence.
Both are former bodybuilders who took to the sport at an early age and ended up winning the vaunted Mr. Universe competition. Both turned to acting and made it a passion.
Both carry an accent that hints of the old country, and by 2009, both will have played important roles in Terminator films (Kickinger will play T-800 in Terminator Salvation. [Clinton News via AICN]

You may remember this guy from Son of the Beach.  He has also played Arnold in a made-for-TV biopic. Basically he’s made a career out of being kind of like Arnold, so it’s fitting that he’ll be working with a guy who’s made a career out of being kind of like a director.  In the words of Mitch Hedberg, “I got to be in a movie with Peter Frampton and in the scene, we got to smoke pot, but it was fake pot.  So I got to smoke fake pot with Peter Frampton. That’s a cool story.  It’s as cool as smoking real pot with a guy who looks like Peter Frampton.  I’ve done that way more.”