Arnold Schwarzenegger Stars in “Maggie”

Legendary action film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in an independent movie thriller about post-zombie apocalypse. Arnold's character, a stoic, protective father and farmer, encounters a crossroad when his 16-year-old daughter Maggie (Abigail Breslin) is infected with the zombie virus. A heartbreaking decision might be made to prevent his daughter from becoming part of the walking dead. “Maggie” is the feature film directorial debut of graphic designer, commercial and title sequence director, Henry Hobson. The low-budget movie is based on an original screenplay by John Scott III. For Schwarzenegger, "Maggie" is the first low-budget indie flick he has ever starred in and produced. He says, “This is something very new for me, and for the zombie genre.  It was so different I didn’t just want to star I wanted to produce, which I normally never do.”

In Maggie, Shwarzenegger assumes a role he has never done--a stoic farmer whose only concern is to protect his family and value the time he has with his daughter.

“At its core, it is a film about a father protecting his daughter”, said Schwarzenegger. “We’ve seen the zombie hordes and machine guns in other movies – it all seems like an unbelievable future.  Maggie makes the disease real by shrinking the world of the movie to focus on one family, in the middle of nowhere, on their wasted farm.  When I read it, I knew I had to do it. It is more vulnerable than any role I have played, more real, more emotional.”

From Pioneer Films, “Maggie” opens May 6 in theaters nationwide!