Arnold Schwarzenegger Memoir: 'Total Recall' To Be Released In 2012

After winning multiple bodybuilding titles, starring in dozens of movies, helming an eight-year stint as California governor, and one very public love child scandal and divorce, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to write a memoir.

Simon and Schuster has acquired the rights to the book, tentatively titled "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story," which will be published in October 2012. According to the press release, Schwarzenegger began working on the book last year.

"He has been keeping notes and working on the book for over a year," his spokesman Adam Mendelsohn told People magazine. "He didn't want to write his autobiography while he was governor."

However, a spokeswoman for the Governor's office would not disclose how much of the book--if any--would be dedicated to Schwarzenegger's divorce from estranged wife Maria Shriver.

The couple of 25 years split in May 2011 amid revelations that Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with former household staffer Mildred Baena. Shriver filed for divorce in July, two months after the revelations surfaced.

A spokesman for Shriver declined to comment on the memoir.

"Truly, Arnold is one of the most fascinating figures of our time, and one of the greatest success stories in the world,” said Jonathan Karp, publisher of Simon & Schuster. "Nobody has a life story even close to his."

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story indicated that the book was published in October 2010. It will be published in October 2012.

Comments

[norepublicanleftbehind]

02:20 AM on 09/27/2011

What is with the serious nose hair? Did he lose a publicist?

[norepublicanleftbehind]

02:19 AM on 09/27/2011

He should have just called it Cheater.

[norepublicanleftbehind]

02:18 AM on 09/27/2011

What's next DWTS?

[Keyop]

08:31 AM on 09/26/2011

Arnold rocks, watch pumping iron, he's a trip in that documentary.

[freddsky]

04:12 AM on 09/24/2011

The use of one of his movie titles is a good idea. Catchy! But 'Total Recall' doesn't jibe well with the obvious conclusions that he couldn't seem to remember he was married? Already had a family? Knew about birth control? No scratch that. True Lies? gulp Collateral Damage? ewww


Of course! "Junior: The Driving Force Behind All I Say and Do."
If it ever has to be made into a movie, it can be animated. As well as Blue.

[teacherfor25]

11:54 PM on 09/23/2011

Does Arnold really think people are going to forgive and forget once he tells his story of his affair with the maid? He has lost total credibility with so many people.

[tall coolone]

08:59 PM on 09/23/2011

I'm dying to know how he prepared for his role in "Hercules in New York". Can't wait!

[standish]

08:33 PM on 09/23/2011

I don't think the creators of "Fun with Dick and Jane" need worry.

[MarkNFL12345]

04:07 PM on 09/23/2011

Ewwwwwwwwww. Not a good idea to write this book. Wait a few years.

[MikeDu]

11:59 AM on 09/23/2011

Oh yeh, right. A Republican politician is going to write a book that's going to be candid.

[nowayless]

10:40 AM on 09/23/2011

A textbook star in films and life, who finally finds in his very late lifetime that he has lost his soul and dignity during all these years of dancing with the Republicans.

[valeskas]

10:17 AM on 09/23/2011

Arnold is a chauvinsty and a pig, I only hope that people have enough sense, not to buy it. Total Recall, he only will tell other lies.

[mother10]

07:05 AM on 09/23/2011

what the hell...no shame

[mother10]

07:03 AM on 09/23/2011

DONKEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mother10]

06:47 AM on 09/23/2011

these posts are so funny...I am cracking up laughing....