Arnold Schwarzenegger won't be back, for a while

Arnold Schwarzenegger has put his Hollywood comeback on hold in an effort to repair his shattered personal life after revelations he fathered a child with a member of his domestic staff more than 10 years ago. The former California governor had been tipped to return to the big screen in Cry Macho, a road movie about a down-on-his-luck horse breeder railroaded into travelling to Mexico to kidnap his boss's young son from the child's mother. The film is now on hold, along with his TV cartoon The Governator, featuring a Schwarzenegger-style superhero, and a number of other planned projects. The actor-turned-politician revealed earlier this week that he had fathered the child, whose mother worked for his family for more than a decade. The revelation, which he confirmed to the Los Angeles Times in a remorseful statement, casts new light on the breakup of his 25-year marriage with Maria Shriver, announced by the couple last week. "At the request of Arnold Schwarzenegger, we asked Creative Artists Agency to inform all his motion picture projects currently under way or being negotiated to stop planning until further notice," Schwarzenegger's lawyer said in a statement. "Gov Schwarzenegger is focusing on personal matters and is not willing to commit to any production schedules or timelines. This includes Cry Macho, the Terminator franchise and other projects under consideration. We will resume discussions when Gov Schwarzenegger decides." As indicated in the statement, Schwarzenegger was also heading up a rights package for a fifth Terminator film . It was being shopped around studios earlier this year, with several Hollywood heavyweights reportedly interested in making a film with the actor reinstalled in his best-known role. Other projects in the development stages included action movie The Last Stand, Korean director Kim Ji-woon's English language directorial debut. Schwarzenegger would have starred as a smalltown sheriff tasked with capturing an escaped cartel leader planning to escape over the Mexican border.