Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Santa Claus Now and Somehow It Makes Perfect Sense

Arnold Schwarzenegger is officially trading the Terminator for Santa Claus.

Prime Video just dropped the trailer for his new Christmas movie, The Man with the Bag, which has Arnold playing Santa 30 years after starring in the holiday favorite Jingle All the Way.

This time, Santa has a pretty serious problem: his magical bag has been stolen by a rogue elf played by Awkwafina, putting Christmas in jeopardy.

So naturally, Santa turns to someone on the Naughty List.

He recruits a thief played by Reacher star Alan Ritchson, who puts together a crew of criminal misfits to help steal the bag back before Christmas is ruined.

The cast also includes Ken Jeong, Jane Krakowski, Liza Koshy and Kyle Mooney.

It’s also Arnold’s first movie role since 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, and apparently they couldn’t resist squeezing in a Terminator reference. At the end of the trailer, Santa Arnold delivers an “I’m back!”

Honestly, if you’re going to make Santa Claus the leader of a Christmas heist movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger feels like the correct amount of ridiculous.

The Man with the Bag starts streaming globally on Prime Video December 2.

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