Now that he's completed his term as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's mulling a few different projects to mark his return to the silver screen.

Although he cameoed in The Expendables and Around the World in 80 Days while in office, Schwarzenegger last carried a film in 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines The Guardian points out an interview Schwarzenegger recently did with Austrian newspaper the Krone where he said (translated), "I'm reading three scripts. ... One topic/script, which I considered a long time ago before governor, is delighting me particularly. I would play an older [German] soldier, who gets the order at the end of the war to kill a bunch of kids. But he doesn't do it and gets them to safety at the risk of his life. It has all kinds of adventure. The script is based on a true story."As the paper points out, this project would be With Wings as Eagles , a long-gestating adaptation of James J Cullen's book Ostermann's War. Schwarzenegger has been attached to Wings since 1996 (!!). Braveheart's Randall Wallace , who is the son-in-law of Cullen, penned the screenplay adaptation. Entertainment Weekly reported back in 1996 that the project was meant to be Arnold's follow-up to Batman & Robin (ha!). Paramount was reportedly eying Phillip Noyce Richard Attenborough and Martin Scorsese back then to direct it. Here's a rundown (no Arnold cameo pun intended) of the Wings script: "Mr. Schwarzenegger's character, says Mr. Wallace, is an amalgam of several German officers Mr. Cullen knew in the war. So it's not a concoction. ... In the script, Arnold's Col. Ostermann is a moral, Nazi-despising soldier with a wife and a family who fights 'for all of Germany,' he declares early on, 'and not for one man or one party.' ... Ostermann starts to change colors when his young son, Johann, is killed by an Allied bombing raid over Berlin. He is subsequently ordered by the SS to execute American prisoners being held at Stalag Luft III (the prison camp from which the famed breakout depicted in The Great Escape , the 1963 Steve McQueen film, took place). Wanting no more to do with war's butchery, Ostermann decides to free a group of Americans from the camp and help them link up with Allied forces."In the Krone interview, Arnold declares that his days as an action star are behind him and that he needs to adapt his roles to his age, a la Clint Eastwood: "Throwing myself around the room and shooting people is no longer in there. I want to be called for much more as an actor, and I think I can make this change as well. I'm like a sponge that soaks up knowledge and is constantly willing to learn new things."No word yet on what the other two scripts are that Schwarzenegger is considering.