The Governator is both a comic book and a proposed animated superhero action comedy developed and produced by Stan Lee

Stan Lee

Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....

 and co-developed with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....

. The series would have featured Schwarzenegger voicing an action hero version of himself fighting crime with wife Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver

Maria Owings Shriver is an American journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has received a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of...

and the couples' four children.

Following a series of upheavals in his personal life, including his pending divorce from Shriver, Schwarzenegger announced on May 19, 2011, that he was placing his acting career on hold. In the face of this announcement, a representative for the production companies involved announced that the television series was on hold but did not specify whether the hold was temporary or permanent.