Renato Cesaro, painter of dozens of famous movie posters, died in Treviso, Italy, on Monday. He was 89 years old. Cesaro's striking works include those for A Fistful of Dollars, Rambo: First Blood Part 2, The Neverending Story and more recently Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood. And that hardly scratches the surface of an incredible career.
Casaro helped put bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger on the map in Hollywood with his poster for the Dino De Laurentiis-produced Conan the Barbarian (1982), and he also designed posters for the actor's Red Sonja (1985), The Running Man (1987), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and True Lies (1994). "Schwarzenegger was the perfect man to paint," he told The Guardian in 2022. "He had a tough expression. His face was like a sculpture. It