As his 7 years as Governator end, Arnold Schwarzenegger told an Austrian newspaper that he is looking at several scripts to base his return to movies with!
“I’m reading three scripts,” [Schwarzenegger] said. “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
The script he refers to has been identified by several reporting news sources as With Wings As Eagles, by Braveheart writer Randall Wallace, and is based on the novel Ostermann’s War by James J. Cullen. That script is inspired by the true story of a German colonel who is ordered to kill thousands of prisoners in the last days of the war, and how he is then forced to fight his fellow soldiers.
He did say he’d be back…