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So for starters, the newest photos from Valkyrie manage to make Tom Cruise look a lot more dashing. Good thing, too, because the only other photo release prompted a flurry of cheap shots aimed at everybody's favorite tabloid whipping boy. Empire now has three new studio stills from Bryan Singer's historical drama about the infamous July 20th plot to assassinate Hitler. Joining Cruise are Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard and Terrence Stamp. There are also some extra shots in the newsstand edition of Empire this month, along with an interview with Singer.
Cruise stars as German Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. In 1944, Stauffenberg along with other high-ranking officers in the Nazi party attempted to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Stauffenberg and his crew attempted to kill Hitler with a bomb planted in a briefcase. Obviously they failed, and the key players were rounded up almost immediately. By 1945, most of the men involved had committed suicide or had been executed in a variety of nasty ways.
There hasn't been that much attention paid to the film -- that is if you don't count the hub-bub in Germany surrounding Stauffenberg's descendants being a little less than thrilled with having a Scientologist playing a national hero. Which is somewhat surprising if you consider that in Cruise's pre-'couch jumping' days, Valkyrie would have been a huge Oscar contender. But now it seems like the news is nothing but delayed release dates and cracks about Cruise in an eye patch. As for Singer, it seems like he has taken his fair share of insults since he took on the Man of Steel. Maybe both Singer and Cruise can silence the snark when Valkyrie hits theaters on October 3rd, 2008.
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3-31-2008 @ 8:40PM
uforeader said...
i hope this is good and does well at the box office. tom is in need of some positive press.
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3-31-2008 @ 11:18PM
Gina said...
Dashing? Uh, yeah. That's why the woman looks scared to death of him. :-) If they're going for a picture that won't make people laugh, they'll have to try again, because I've had at least three goofy captions come to mind so far.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:24AM
elessar said...
How is the delayed release date a bad thing? A movie like this belongs in the fall, not in the middle of summer.
Rant warning: As for the eyepatch thing, that really gets me. Von Stauffenberg lost his eye in combat. Would they prefer to see him with an empty eye socket? Sometimes I want to just scream at those hecklers (who, I think, are not as numerous as everyone thinks). Granted, Tom's crazy, but that was THREE frackin' years ago. I would think most people--while they may still roll their eyes at those antics--would have moved on by now. Cruise-bashing went stale over a year ago. End rant.
Sorry, it just irritates me to no end when people kvetch so ignorantly about something.
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4-01-2008 @ 11:16AM
Jim said...
The man believes in a space alien that landed in a volcano here on earth and is now their savior or some such nonsense. I could forgive the couch jumping - Katie Holmes is, after all, a catch. But worshiping a space alien and being the head of an elaborate pyramid scheme? Come on. I'm expecting this movie to crash and burn. War of the Worlds did well because of Mr. Spielberg, not because of Cruise. (I think if Will Smith had starred in that movie, it would have doubled the box office take). I couldn't skip War of the Worlds because I wanted to see what Spielberg brought to it. Valkyrie will have no such draw, and anti-Cruise movie goers will stay away in droves.
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4-01-2008 @ 2:17PM
AJ Wiley said...
I really hope this can revitalize both Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer's careers. And I don't mean financially, I mean creatively.
I just want it to be good...
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4-01-2008 @ 2:41PM
rex said...
Maybe I have missed it, but none of the pictures seem to show Stauffenberg's disfigured hand(also lost in combat). I am curious to see how they treat that injury and assume they will undoubtedly have to cover it since it was one of the reasons the assasination attempt failed. I will admit to being very interested in this movie and hope they at least do the topic justice. It should be noted that this was more than a simple assasination attempt, it was an elaborately planned coup designed to save Germany from the ruin Hitler would bring down on the country.
Also- bashing on Tom Cruise will never be out of style (I fully admit to liking many of his films). Did you see his Scientology promotional video? That's comedy gold. The problem I have now is that when I watch a movie I don't see a character in the movie, I just see Tom Cruise.
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4-01-2008 @ 4:01PM
Terryeo said...
I agree with elessar this movie belongs in the fail not in summer. I also agree that Tom's behavior in the last 3 years have made him a paragon of sanity by anyone's reckoning. I think people who criticise him are just jealous that they're don't get special treatment from David Miscavige in exchange for talking up Scientology. Shame on you all!
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4-01-2008 @ 9:55PM
lw said...
Adolf, not Adolph.
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