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Kretschmann is already on board for the movie. Albeit cast in a different part.Originally posted by VonLuck View Post
On a side note: I for one have no problem with Cruise playing von Stauffenberg. Yet. I'm going to give him and the people behind the movie the benefit of the doubt. He's an actor and therefore payed to do his job without bringing his personal life into the part he's supposed to play -and despite what he may or may not be up to in his personal life I'm quite certain that he'll be able to do just that. I'll definately see the movie when it comes out and then make up my mind; based on the performance of actors and director etc.
That being said: An all German movie (like Stalingrad/Der Untergang) would have been preferred. But hey: at least Thomas Kretschmann is in the movie.
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Movie news,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6954909.stm
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Originally posted by Diane View Post
Dear Diane
Sorry for being sarcastic, but I dont hope they do this for a living cause there numerous faults to be named already. Maybe they should have kept this shot themselfes.
Apparently the Ministry Of Defense in Germany is not to fond of this project either!
regards JensLast edited by Jens; 08-21-2007, 03:00 PM.Comment
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Jens,Originally posted by Jens View Post
Could you be more specific?....What "faults" are these, that you speak of?
Thanks,
Bob.I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.....Comment
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There allready is an all german movie made about Stauffenberg:Originally posted by Joachim_Nilsson View Post.....That being said: An all German movie (like Stalingrad/Der Untergang) would have been preferred. But hey: at least Thomas Kretschmann is in the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388437/
The Tom Cruise film will probably be the hollywood variant of history. Lots of spectaecular action, Computer Graphics, etc. Will it be totaly accurate.....probably not.Comment
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This might be os some interest, it was in last Sunday's local newspaper...
Bob
Cruise’s mission to kill Hitler
Last Sunday in the German capital Berlin, Tom Cruise hosted a cocktail party for journalists visiting the set
of his new movie ‘Valkyrie’. It was at once a small coming out party for the film and the putting in place of another
piece of the emerging picture of the new United Artists, the company Cruise and his partner Paula Wagner revived
last year after his shock departure from Paramount.
On Monday, after a tour of sets still under construction for Valkyrie on two massive sound stages at Berlin’s Studio
Babelsberg, a brief preview of ‘Lions For Lambs’ was screened. Starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Cruise
and directed by Redford, it will be the first release from the Cruise-Wagner version of UA – “a new studio with a 90
year history”, says head of marketing Dennis Rice, a Disney and Miramax veteran.
Despite the star power involved, neither movie looks an easy sell, Lions for Lambs, scheduled for release this year, is
a contemporary political drama set in the same single hour in three different time zones. Redford plays an academic,
Streep a journalist and Cruise a senator fast tracking to the White House. The characters in the World War II thriller Valkyrie,
Directed by Bryan Singer and due to hit the screen mid-2008, are predominantly members of Adolf Hitler’s armed forces.
“We’re just going to do the best we can,” Cruise says of the significance of the two movies to the future of UA. “In five years
we’ll talk and you’ll tell me how we did.”
His focus right now is on Valkyrie, in which he plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the key figure in a botched “bomb
in a suitcase” attempt, code-named Valkyrie, to assassinate Hitler in his so-called “Wolf’s Lair” at Rastenberg in East Prussia
on July 20, 1944. Four people in the room died, but Hitler survived with damaged ear drums, burns and increasing paranoia.
Staufenberg and his co-conspirators were executed by firing squad early the next day in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock, a
Berlin building that housed Hitler’s Army High Command and now is a memorial to the Nazi resistance. The street outside was
Renamed Stauffenbergstrasse. The Bendlerblock was one location the German Government initially refused access to the Valkyrie
film crew, supposedly because of Germany’s distaste for Cruise’s adherence to Scientology. It does seem a tenuous link and
According to Cruise is “not even worth mentioning”.
A few blocks away, the venue of Cruise’s cocktail party is a former bank building refurbished as the Hotel De Rome. It also has
some significance although, under a pink-tinged sky on a cool, late summer’s night, it is difficult to imagine the chaos that went on
outside in a square called Bebelplatz on May 10, 1933. That was where the Hitler Youth brought thousands of confiscated books
written by writers such as Thomas Mann and Karl Marx and used them as fuel for huge bonfires.
Nursing a soft drink on a terrace four floors above Bebelplatz, Cruise is surrounded by several of his British co-stars – Bill Nighy,
Eddy Izzard and David Bamber, who plays Hitler, among them – and gorgeous Dutch actor Carice Van Houten. She plays Stauffenberg’s
wife Nina, who survived the war and lived until April 2006. Cruise obviously is happy with the way the film is proceeding and the cooperation
of the locals. Despite the Government’s aversion to Scientology, the Federal Film Fund kicked in $7.86 million towards the budget of
Valkyrie, effectively making the German people co-producers. “It was incredibly helpful and generous and definitely needed” says Cruise.
Old high school friends, Singer (Superman Returns, X-Men) and writer Christopher McQuarrie, who teamed for the 1995 hit The Usual
Suspects, originally brought Valkyrie to UA as a smaller film, not a potential starring vehicle for Cruise. But during one meeting Singer
Threw a book on Stauffenberg on the table, The cover featured a profile of the aristocratic German and it suddenly dawned on everyone
In the room that Cruise bears more than a passing resemblance to him. “I did not know that, right up until that moment,” Cruise says. “I did
not know about this story until I read Chris McQuarrie’s script.”
In a matter of moments, a small film about a group of plotters became a much bigger project. Despite any difficult moments securing authentic
German locations to make the film, the producers also have had some luck. Back at the cocktail party Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean), who
plays Stauffenberg’s co-conspirator General Friedrich Olbricht, says one period house considered perfect had to be abandoned because
the floor created too much noise when dollys were moved. “So they changed to another substantial period house, which turned out to be the
house,” Nighy says.
A lady turned up who was in her late 80s and she remembered Stauffenberg. She remembered the men going into the room where we filmed and
all the children having to be quiet while the men talked. “Before that, no one had any idea. It turned out this lady’s father was a member of the
resistance and she later say him taken away by the Nazis. McQuarrie, who won an Academy Award for The Usual Suspects, is discussing the doubt
Stauffenberg’s surviving family had about Hollywood’s ability to make a realistic film about him.
“Frankly, Hollywood has generated overwhelming evidence to suppose that theory,” he says. “But Stauffenberg was this utterly romantic character and
we do nothing in this film to exaggerate that side of him. It requires no embellishment whatsoever. “And I know I speak for Bryan and Tom when I say
that the film we are making will revere this man, not exploit him.”
Over in another corner, dark haired Carice Van Houten (Black Book) is doing wonders for the proverbial little black dress, her very presence churning
the rumour mill that already has her playing the next Bond girl. “I’ve heard it, I’ve read it, but no Broccolis have called me,” she says, laughing and
plucking a flute of champagne from a passing tray. “It’s a rumour I’m going to do Miss Marple or something.”
Claus and Nina von Stauffenberg had four children and another on the way at the time of Stauffenberg’s execution. “Don’t ask me when it came out,”
Van Houten says, patting her trim stomach. “I didn’t eat a lot to get this part.” “Bryan and Tom saw Black Book and my agent was asked whether I
was available.”
“I was available, even if I wasn’t available.”
(Melbourne Herald-Sun, September 9, 2007. Page 6 of ‘Inside Entertainment’ lift out, by Lawrie Masterson).
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The main Valkyrie cast (from left) Kevin McNally, Christian Berkel, Bill Nighy, Tom Cruise, Terence Stamp,
David Schofield and Kenneth Branagh.
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Tom Cruise bears an uncanny resemblance to Nazi Resistance hero Claus von Stauffenberg (right), who
plotted to assissinate Adolf Hitler.
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A pre-war Junkers JU-52 used in Valkyrie.
(The captions were as printed in the newspaper article).
...Swaz on the tail looks played with in the photo, maybe it was for the newspaper, I hope it isn't like
this for the movie !
Bob
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Great posts, Mr. Lyons. Especially the newspaper article. This means that they chose "The Krooz" for his resemblance to Stauffenberg and his acting skills -and not as a big bucks attracting star. And that photo comparison is a bit uncanny.Comment
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Yes, indeed, B.L., great article. Now we truly know something about the film and how it came to be. Maybe it won't be so bad after all.
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It isn't uncanny in the slightest. If you took any white male and photographed him in profile, B & W, in a high collar with a short back'n'sides, lit from the front in a dark studio you would get an almost identical result!Originally posted by Joachim_Nilsson View PostComment
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Originally posted by Seigfried View Post
Hardly. Compare their foreheads, eyebrow and nose ridges and chins. I can guarantee you that I won't share Stauffenberg's profile -even if photographed under those circumstances.Comment
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I suppose that you think that anyone with a dodgy fringe and a toothbrush moustache looks a dead ringer for the Fuhrer!? Tell you what, if I have enough time I'll get myself Stauffenberged up and you'll see what I meanOriginally posted by Joachim_Nilsson View Post
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