We've seen pictures, a featurette went live on Apple yesterday, and now Yahoo has the first official trailer for this summer's Valkyrie, directed by Bryan Singer, and starring one heckuva cast including Tom Cruise, Carice van Houten, Bill Nighy, Terrence Stamp, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson and Eddie Izzard. Apart from it being a tad weird to watch English and American actors play a group of high-ranking German officers, the film looks great. I've been looking forward to Singer stepping away from the superhero world for a bit; I absolutely loved The Usual Suspects and it's been ten years since the guy came out with something on the big screen that wasn't based on a comic book. Coincidentally (or not), Singer's last hardcore drama (Apt Pupil) also dealt with Nazi themes, but this time the director decided to take it one step further and set his film in Germany, during World War II.
Based on a true story, Valkyrie (which was written by Christopher McQuarrie, who also penned Suspects) follows a group of German officers who, in 1944, conspired to assassinate Adolf Hitler in an attempt to end the war. The trailer looks sharp, cold, and though Cruise seems a bit out of place (then again, maybe it's just me), the rest of the cast look solid in their roles. Additionally, as freak-ish as it might sound, Cruise looks exactly like the real-life character he's portraying, Col. Claus von Stauffenberg. Valkyrie will attempt to find a home stuffed between two giant comic-related films (The Incredible Hulk, The Dark Knight), but I have a feeling it'll do just fine when the film hits theaters on July 27.
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11-09-2007 @ 4:57PM
Bhist said...
I’m really surprised you didn’t notice one very odd aspect of the trailer: every actor is speaking in their native dialect. Cruise acts with an unmistakable American accent, Branagh obviously very British, and the rest the same. Even in that two minute trailer I was so perplexed by this that the idea of seeing this movie was not too thrilling.
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11-10-2007 @ 11:25AM
elessar said...
I thought Tom did just fine! Really wasn't expecting this trailer, BTW.
Oh, and Bhist, there was never going to be any German accents in this movie. No accent is better than an unconvincing one. And just HOW is that perlexing?!
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