Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christopher McQuarrie are reteaming for a third entry into the Conan the Barbarian franchise, titled King Conan. McQuarrie, who has been hard at work helming the four latest Mission: Impossible films, is due to write and direct the swords-and-sorcery feature for 20th Century Studios.

Schwarzenegger would naturally reprise his titular role, which he debuted in 1982 with Conan the Barbarian, followed by a 1984 sequel titled Conan the Destroyer. Based on Robert E. Howard’s character, the first film tells the story of a barbarian named Conan (surprising, we’re sure) who seeks to avenge his parents’ deaths at the hands of Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones), the leader of a snake cult.

Schwarzenegger announced McQuarrie’s involvement in the project at the Arnold Sports Festival. In teasing King Conan, Schwarzenegger stated, “It’s a great story where Conan was 40 years king, and he gets complacent, and now he gets forced out of the kingdom, slowly. Then there’s conflict, of course, and then he somehow comes back, and then there’s all kinds of madness and violence and magic and creatures. Now, of course, you have all the special effects, and the studio system has plenty of money to make those movies really big.”