For a while now, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been trying to get a new Conan movie off the ground, and he’s eager to reprise the role for a decades-later sequel to 1982’s Conan the Barbarian and 1984’s Conan the Destroyer. “It’s a movie that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Let’s do it,” Schwarzenegger had stated just last month.

The proposed project has had the titles The Legend of Conan and Conan the Conqueror over the years, and as recently as 2016, Arnold had noted that the script had been written.

He described the film’s plot at the time, “I’m sitting on the throne for years and years – decades, and then all of the sudden, the time comes when they want to overthrow me.”

In a new chat with The Arnold Fans, Schwarzenegger explains the holdup.

“When it comes to the movie, the sad stuff about all of this is when there’s an estate like this…The Robert E. Howard estate…when someone buys these rights, those people now own the rights and they have their own vision of what they want to do and the guy that has the rights is some young guy and he’s trying to figure out how to get his way through Hollywood and this is not easy to do,” Arnold told the site. “So there are people that say to him, ‘Why don’t you start with a TV series?’ and then he negotiates for a TV series and that falls apart. And then he goes maybe to Netflix and that falls apart. Then he decides to make a movie maybe.”

He continued, “But in the meantime, we have been trying to convince him for years now that the way to go is to come back and hire a really great director and to do another Conan movie and have me play King Conan, when Conan is like 70 years old and he’s disgusted by sitting on the throne and being the king and then something happens after that. It’s really not that far from creating a finished script. The only one who really has to pull the trigger there is the people who own the Conan rights to do a movie. Let’s go to Netflix or whoever it is, let’s hire a director who’s very creative and can elevate the project to make it a winning project.”

“I hope it will be done very soon because I think it’s a great idea.”