Get ready, movie fans, for the opening next week of this summer's biggest sci-fi action thriller. It's called "Terminator 4: The Gubernatorial Attacks."

This high-voltage film, with its dazzling special effects, is set one year in the future, at the 2004 National Governors Association conference in Seattle. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, playing himself as the newly minted governor of California.

Talk recently got a sneak peek at the flick, which begins nine months after Arnold has won the special recall election. As it turns out, Arnold really is a violent cyborg sent back from the future to take over the United States and alter the course of history. Only nobody in California notices he has wiped out all the state legislators because, let's face it, everybody in California is a little weird.

It's only when he goes on a vicious rampage in the hotel lobby at the annual meeting of governors that he draws national attention from alarmed citizens.

Riding through the demolished convention center on his Harley Fatboy after a string of fierce gun battles and epic explosions, Arnold -- dressed head-to-toe in black leather -- twirls his lever-action shotgun and surveys the destruction.

Arnold: I have terminated 48 governors. There is only one man standing in my way before I rule the entire country. Now where is that pencil-necked geek from South Carolina?

Gov Mark Sanford (strolling out of a convention center auditorium): Hey, Arnold, what's going on? You just missed my policy speech on "Budget Deficits and How Not to Solve Them." Come to think of it, no other governors were in there. Did everyone already go to happy hour? Wait, what's happened out here? Arnold, did you do this? Where are the others?

Arnold: They have left the building. Get it? Left the building? That's my new catch phrase. Do you like it? And now you're next. Hasta la vista, preppie!

Sanford: I'm not afraid of you, Arnold. I happen to be a highly trained member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

Arnold: So you are a specialist in high-tech weaponry?

Sanford: No, but I did learn how to load medical supplies onto cargo planes. Don't make me come over there and drop a box of first-aid kits on your foot.

Arnold: You are pathetic with that little alligator on your shirt. You can't possibly believe a cyborg will be scared of a man in wrinkled khakis, no socks and a pair of beat-up Topsiders.

Sanford: Cyborg? I thought you were an android. Or are you a killer robot? Is there a difference? Maybe you can explain it to me.

Arnold: Shut up! The only way you can stop me is if you bore me to death! But you will not live that long. After I terminate you, I will drive straight to Washington, D.C., and finish taking over the country.

Sanford: You'll never get away with it, Arnold. I've got a Boy Wonder sidekick for a lieutenant governor, and his Ford pickup easily can outrun that little motorbike you're driving.

Arnold: You think I'm worried about anyone named Andre? I'll vaporize the pretty boy when I fire my flamethrower at his hair spray. Prepare for Judgment Day and the fall of civilization as we know it.

Sanford: You can't be that tough, mister. You're from Austria. Nobody tough has ever hailed from Austria. Now put down that gun, and let's settle this like real gentlemen.

Arnold: What do you propose?

Sanford: Let's have a yacht race. Or maybe a debate on the importance of less government.

Arnold: No, a yacht race sounds nice. You know, I love to go sailing with my Kennedy in-laws near our Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod.

Sanford: Hyannisport? Come on, Arnold, Hilton Head is the best. But, really, as the rich folks like to say, you can't go wrong in either place.

Arnold: You're not such a bad guy after all, Mark. Why don't you come to Washington with me, and we'll revolutionize the country together. It would make a great movie.

Sanford: Sure thing, but what would we call it?

Arnold: "Terminator 5: Revenge of the Nerds."