First Look: Tom Cruise as a One-Eyed Nazi
Tom Cruise plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie, a German officer who leads the resistance charge to assassinate Hitler.
Via Rope of Silicon: "The 'July 20 Plot' on Hitler's life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler's once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation's government ... He must kill Hitler himself."
Bryan Singer is directing the film, slated to appear in theaters just over a year from now.
Posted Jul. 19,2007 at 10:45 AM EST by Andy Towle in Bryan Singer, Film, News, Tom Cruise | Permalink
Anybody else remember Brad Davis ( R.I.P.) as Von Stauffenberg in the 1990 TV movie "The Plot To Kill Hitler"? He was mega-hot, as usual.
Posted by: Joe T. | Jul 20, 2007 6:27:10 AM
Stauffenberg was not a Nazi you american morons.
Posted by: Marcel | Jul 20, 2007 8:29:09 AM
Marcel : I know you Manhattan New York Times types hate the U.S., but really...
Posted by: Joe T. | Jul 20, 2007 9:04:42 AM
Manhattan NYT types?
Is that anything like Hollywood liberal?
Or San Francisco values?
I guess the right's mantra about being 'uniters, not dividers' is about as empty as their tenuous claims to monogamy and heterosexuality.
Posted by: John | Jul 20, 2007 3:58:30 PM
i've never seen much in crazy tommy. he's always been kind of thick in the hips and thighs... not attractive on a man. plus, he has been getting loonier and loonier. scientology is a joke.
Posted by: nic | Jul 20, 2007 8:27:38 PM
I don't know how similar the types are, John. I don't know enough Hollywood Liberals personally. I do know a lot of Manhattan NY Times types, though (the ones right in Manhattan). I know a few San Francisco values types, but the ones I know are different beasts from the Manhattan NY Times types.
Posted by: Joe T. | Jul 20, 2007 10:12:00 PM
So where's Natasha, dahlink?
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