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Tom Cruise to star in Adolf Hitler movie

Valkyrie - story of an assassination attempt

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jml
Yuck, yuck, yuck. Mr. Cruise has landed a WWII film on the attempt to assassinate Hitler. I thought it couldn't possibly get any worse but then I read he's also got the rights to the sequel for one of my all time favourite movies, Usual Suspects. Man I can admit he's had some good roles but I really cant stand the guy.

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When Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie brought their new thriller to United Artists, they got more than a producer. They got a star.

UA co-head Tom Cruise, who snagged the rights to the "Usual Suspects" reunion, will also star in the currently untitled World War II drama. This will be the second straight United Artists pick-up that Cruise has also opted to star in, after taking a supporting turn in Robert Redford's "Lions for Lambs."

Details on the project were initially vague, but somebody fed the industry trades the information that McQuarrie's script is based the real events surrounding a group of German generals plotting to assassinate Adolph Hitler. While the trades say that Cruise agreed on Tuesday to take a lead role, no role is specified, though the "Born on the Fourth of July" star probably won't be playing Hitler.
nixe
Oh God, I hope he isn't playing Stauffenberg. That would just be wrong.
Dafydd
No, actually he's typcast as a psycho midget; He's playing Hitler.
topcat 1
Although, it may make a few of you cringe, I happen to be a bit of a Tom Cruise fan. Probably something to do with meeting him in Kerry and at that time anyway he was very down to earth.
bluedave
QUOTE (topcat 1 @ Mar 23 2007, 12:14 am) *
he was very down to earth.

We've already established that he's a shortarse . . wink.gif
Dafydd
Anybody who could swap Nicole Kidman (even though she's a ginga) for Penelpope Cruz has got to be a knob.
bluedave
Dunno mate i love the dark eyes and sexy accent. Nicole Kidman has the curves of an anorexic 14 yr old boy ffs
topcat 1
Kidman was too tall. Penelope is a bit of a stunner in my book. Katie Holmes has just dropped one so she doesn't figure in the arithmetic at the moment. oh dear me that sounds a bit sexist, she is too tall as well anyway.
Dafydd
QUOTE (bluedave @ Mar 23 2007, 12:22 am) *
Dunno mate i love the dark eyes and sexy accent. Nicole Kidman has the curves of an anorexic 14 yr old boy ffs

OK, so you like his dark eyes but he's still a cnut. biggrin.gif
topcat 1
I've been worried about Dave all day tbh laugh.gif
Hutcho
Another movie I don't even have to read into to know I won't need to watch it.. all I need to see is that name, Tom Cruise, and its all over..
jamie
Just found a screenshot. Wow!
Bandu
CNN: 11 hurt during this film shoot

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Eleven people were injured when they fell off the back of a truck during the shooting of Tom Cruise's latest film in Berlin
LittleSprite
Fell off the back off a truck, eh? They'll be for sale on the Russian black market in no time... ph34r.gif
Katrina
Do hope that wouldn't be a stereotype there, Ms Sprite... wink.gif
LittleSprite
Nah, I made a point of writing "Russian" instead of "Polish". smile.gif
Katrina
Just checking.
berny
"We have no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved in the accident," said a police spokesman, adding he did not know whether it would affect the shoot this week.

fucks sake...

"its ok, just plebs...keep filming...can someone sweep the broken bits up?"
Hutcho
haha.. classic.. unfortunately it seems it wasn't enough to stop the filming.. I guess ideally, Tom Cruise would fall off the back of the truck and die, then they could get the original German guy who had this role before Cruise stole it from him..
clepto
****SPOILER ALERT for the Usual Suspects****

QUOTE (jml @ Mar 22 2007, 10:25 pm) *
UA co-head Tom Cruise, who snagged the rights to the "Usual Suspects" reunion,

blink.gif Reunion? Where, in the after life? Or is it a movie about Kaiser Zose having a drink with Kobayashi and the cop?
Of topic I know, but in my opinion, if there is a movie that doesn't need a sequel, that's the Usual Suspects. You can only go downhill...
FuzzyTony
Valkyrie (2008) - Trailer

Punchbear
QUOTE (nixe @ Mar 23 2007, 12:01 am) *
Oh God, I hope he isn't playing Stauffenberg. That would just be wrong.

He is. He shouldn't.
sarabyrd
My boss spent an evening with Tom Cruise last September. Don't ask me how they met, but the boss visited Cruise in his trailer, they had some kind of finger food supper and talked away. My boss came away with the impression of an intelligent person who was very well-informed about the whole Walküre plan and had great respect for those involved.
For what it's worth.
3 Lions
After watching films like Das Wünder von Bern and Der Üntergang, I reckon the only people that should do movies about Germany and the war are the Germans.
Punchbear
Isn't there something a little bit iffy, a tad incongruous, about a guy, who's the high profile face of an organisation that, among other things, essentially hijacked the holocaust for its Psychiatry: An Industry Of Death Museum, an organization itself accused of intimidation and alleged fascist tendencies, that the German government would like to outlaw, playing Hitlers would-be assassin?
Cendaf
Most movies today are played by the same damn actors, kidman, cruise etc etc. Nobody really goes to movies anymore because we always see the same leerjet liberals/mercedes marxists.
I would welcome a new generation of actors or at least some british actors who still look like human beings. Getting old seeing one movie after another with the same political agenda. Can you imagine Sean Connery or Roger moore getting caught with his cock hanging out while dancing at a club? or becoming a member of some cult? Old hollywood actors used to fight when there was a war. Imagine tom cruise joining the army, our enemies would laugh and it would only encourage them to attack. These over played actors should have kept their political opinions to themselves, same goes for the dried up singers like bon jovi and bob dylan and that pathetic wannabe band green day.

Just my opinion
Sin
QUOTE (Cendaf @ Jan 6 2008, 7:38 pm) *
Can you imagine... ...Roger moore getting caught with his cock hanging out while dancing at a club?

Thanks. I was just sick. dry.gif
Punchbear
Clive Owen would make a good Georg Elser.



FuzzyTony
The newest trailer in this long-delayed movie:

Valkyrie (2008) - Trailer 2:

JimmyJohns
The Germans resent Tom Cruse playing one of their very few heroes to come out of the WWII because he's in that Scientiology thing. So you can imagine how ticked off they'd be if John Travolta had the leading role. Now, of course, if they had won...
FuzzyTony
"Don't mention the war."

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