Cruise vs. Germany
Posted on 26. Jun, 2007 by The Gimcracker in Movies, News
Tom Cruise is making a new movie, and as much as I hate to admit, it sounds awesome. It’s about Col. Claus von Stauffenberg who was involved with a World War II era plot to kill Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime. It’s called Valkyrie, it’s directed by Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects and X-Men), and it will star Tom Cruise.
The only problem is he wants to film it in Berlin, and the Germans don’t want a Scientologist to portray someone as honorable as Col. Stauffenberg, so they aren’t letting him shoot the picture there. I don’t know how I feel about this. Part of me thinks it’s petty for a government to ban filming of a movie that tells this story, but part of me is glad that they are standing up for what they believe in.
I would be surprised if America pulled something like this, and frankly I would be disappointed. We’re all about tolerance and freedom of religion here, and apparently Germany is not. Still, I think I need to dig deeper to see why they are opposed to the movie, especially since Tom Cruise has gone insane recently. But dang does he make awesome movies.
Other interesting things I found out: Eddie Izzard is to star in this movie (last time I saw him he was a transvestite stand-up British comedian), Jenna Elfman is the daughter-in-law of Danny Elfman’s brother (how’d I miss that?), and Tom is even shorter than I thought, poor guy.
Read the whole article here.
