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Bryan Singer's VALKYRIE in production hell, delayed unitl 2009

Despite what many critics of this film have said, I'm very interested ins eeing this story told well on screen. I will almost definitely see it in the theaters when it comes out.
I also have no special loathing for Tom Cruise. I think he's a very good actor in certain rolls.

BUT, from watching the trailer, he simply doesn't capture his character's part as well. Too many cute, boyish smiles. I wish so much we could have this movie with someone else playing the part.
 
This movie will never get a theatrical release. The trailer looks absolutely ridiculous with Cruise in the title role.
 
Actually I'm curious about this film, being very familiar with Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg's story. He was a great personality. It's weird seeing Tom Cruise dressed up like him, and I'm sceptical because Hollywood has a way of assassinating historical figures.

It irritated me when I found out they'd delayed the release date.

I do hope I get to see it at the cinema, though.
 
Cruise seems badly miscast - too boyishly American, Top Gun. And that's a shame. It's a hell of a story.

On a side note, the last of the conspirators, Philipp von Boeselager, died last week at 90:

"Had the assassination succeeded, Mr. von Boeselager was supposed to lead 1,200 men back to Berlin and take part in a general uprising against the Nazi regime, code-named Operation Valkyrie. The bomb plot is the subject of the unreleased film “Valkyrie,” in which Tom Cruise plays Colonel von Stauffenberg. Mr. von Boeselager described his role in the wartime resistance in a recent interview with The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Most of the approximately 200 conspirators, including Colonel von Stauffenberg, were rounded up and executed, while others committed suicide. No one revealed Mr. von Boeselager’s role in the plot, which is described in detail by the historian Peter Hoffmann in “The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945.” As a result, he did not need to use the cyanide capsule he kept on hand. Fearing exposure, he kept the cyanide for the rest of the war."

NY Times Obit
 
The Lady Eve said:
Cruise seems badly miscast - too boyishly American, Top Gun.
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As much as I agree with that, it's going to be a film with American actors speaking in American English irregardless of Cruise's involvement... so I don't think they could get worse. This film is never going to be Der Untergang or Sophie Scholl.
 
Yeah, The Untergang was great cinema. One should see it in the original language ;)
 
Starbreaker said:
This movie will never get a theatrical release. The trailer looks absolutely ridiculous with Cruise in the title role.
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It would have been better if he'd at least attempted an accent or played the role differently from Maverick and Ethan Hunt. As it's shown in the trailer, that's how he's playing him.
 
Honestly, I doubt Cruise is even capable of pronouncing his character's name.

I'm also afraid of the umlaute in some of the others', too. Likely that "Goering" will end up being called "Gering", the poor sod.
 
I'm sure not going to see this movie. It looks boring and we all know the outcome: the mission wasnt successful so what is the point of making this movie in the first place? So some nazi got a guilty conscious after millions have already been killed? Big deal. Not worth shelling out the money to see failure.
 
I thought the trailer looked pretty darn good, it's a very intriguing subject and the cast seems to be very solid. I've also liked more of Singer's films than not, so I'll definitely see this.

I read in the article that audiences reacted negatively to Cruises German accent but he doesn't seem to be attempting one in the trailer anyway.
 
Kegek said:
it's going to be a film with American actors speaking in American English
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That sounds really lame. They should at least attempt German accents.

Then again, most of the Russian characters in The Hunt For Red October didn't speak with accents (at least not Russian ones), and that film turned out fine anyway.
 
Babaganoosh said:
Kegek said:
it's going to be a film with American actors speaking in American English
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That sounds really lame. They should at least attempt German accents.
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Um... why? :vulcan:

Speaking English with a German accent, not to mention a faked German accent, is every bit as fake as speaking it without an accent. An English accent may even be more appropriate considering they're speaking fluent English (as the characters would be speaking fluent German) - and many Germans I've spoken to have only a slight trace of a German accent while speaking English, predominantly.

Ideally, the film would be in German. With German actors. But it's not a German film so that isn't going to happen.

Then again, most of the Russian characters in The Hunt For Red October didn't speak with accents (at least not Russian ones), and that film turned out fine anyway.
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And there was an attempt at Russian accents, IIRC, in K-19: The Widowmaker, which worked okay.
 
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