Creator Brian Monarch Deepfakes Arnold Schwarzenegger Into Every Role in Napoleon Dynamite

Deepfake creator Brian Monarch has produced a video replacing every major character in the 2004 cult comedy Napoleon Dynamite with Arnold Schwarzenegger's face, while voice actor Joe Gaudet provides Schwarzenegger-style vocal performances for all the parts — including Napoleon, Pedro, Uncle Rico, Kip, Deb, and Lafawnduh.

The project is a showcase of current face-replacement and video-synthesis capabilities applied to an existing feature film, demonstrating how a single likeness can be convincingly swapped across multiple characters in a single production. While framed as comedy, the technical feat underscores how accessible deepfake tooling has become for independent creators working outside professional VFX pipelines.