Schwarzenegger is scheduled to start shooting the Western movie The Last Stand in September.  Two months after putting his Hollywood return on hold following a damaging sex scandal, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to get back into the saddle. The former action star turned politician is scheduled to start shooting the Western movie The Last Stand in September, despite being embroiled in what could be a messy divorce from his wife, Maria Shriver.

It's an old fashioned Western specifically designed for a 63 year old broken down guy with a moral decision. We always needed an iconic figure for it, an unnamed movie executive told industry website Deadline Hollywood on Monday. Deadline Hollywood first reported the story, and Schwarzenegger's participation was also confirmed by Entertainment Weekly magazine. Representatives for the former Terminator star, 63, declined comment on the reports, as did a spokesman for the Lionsgate film studio that is behind the movie. But an industry source who asked to remain anonymous confirmed to Reuters that the movie was going ahead as planned with Schwarzenegger in the lead role. 

Schwarzenegger said in May that he was halting discussions for a new Terminator movie and all other Hollywood projects in order to focus on personal matters following an admission that he fathered a secret child 13 years ago with his family's housekeeper. The former California governor's wife last week filed for a divorce to end their 25 year old marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple has four children together. Schwarzenegger was ridiculed in the US media after revealing he had a child out of wedlock that he had kept secret from his family until now.

A Lionsgate executive told Deadline Hollywood that Schwarzenegger was still a big piece of news. The Last Stand, to be directed by South Korea's Jee woon Kim is expected to be released some time in 2012. Before the housekeeper scandal broke in May, Schwarzenegger was also working on a movie called Cry Macho and had announced plans to voice a superhero with a double life in an animated TV comic book style series called The Governator. Production on The Governator was halted and Cry Macho has been put on hold. Schwarzenegger was California governor for seven years until his second term ended in January. He was last seen on screen in a cameo role in the 2010 action movie The Expendables.

Six weeks after Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed they had fathered a child out of wedlock, spouse Maria Shriver filed divorce papers Friday to finish their marriage of 25 years.The former tv journalist & Kennedy relatives heiress cited irreconcilable differences but offered no additional details about the breakup.She also did not list a date when the couple separated, although they announced they had done so on May 9.A week later, the former California governor & one-time action star admitted they fathered a child with a member of his household staff years ago.The filing, which Shriver signed  weeks ago, signals an finish to a union that began with a storybook wedding in 1986 in Cape Cod & brought together a weight lifter & rising action star as well as a princess of the Kennedy clan, herself an up-and-coming network newscaster.They apparently entered marriage with no designs that it would finish. Shriver's filing does not indicate the couple had a premarital agreement.That means Schwarzenegger's earnings from a career as a Hollywood megastar, which allowed him to forgo a wage as governor & commute by private jet to Sacramento, likely will be evenly divided along with his estranged spouse.