Valkyrie and Bryan Singer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985699/

Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

Out in 2008 with Tom Cruise in it??

Kenneth Branagh will star with Tom Cruise in "Valkyrie," the Bryan Singer-directed WWII drama that shoots this summer for United Artists. Branagh will play a German general who mentors Cruise's character and hatches a plan to assassinate Hitler. Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander scripted, based on a true story.

http://movies.netscape.com/story/2007/05/22/kenneth-branagh-set-for-bryan-singers-valkyrie

Tom playing Stauffenberg perhaps...???? ( hope not!)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=410910

 

Tom is playing Stauffenberg, and the production has hit a snag, as the german government will not allow filming on the historical sites because Cruise is a scientologist....

 

Yeah, I cannot see Cruise as von Stauffenburg. He is too short and personally never did like his acting. The snag though is against scientology and cruise's profession to that cult.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1637564,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner

 

This movie should be told by Germans not Americans. It is kind of like having a German actor play Patton, It just would not work. Plus I would hate to see this as a typical Cruz Action Movie vs. the story telling Drama it should be (Like Letters)
This is the German actor who should play Stauffengerg (Thomas Kretchmann)

Shot at 2007-07-08
Vs. the real deal (I think it would be a respectful portrayal)

Shot at 2007-07-09

 

It's July 20th today, this calls for a celebration!

 

I was just watching a special on this yesterday, I must say it caught me by surprsie!!!

A far cry from Top-Gun

 

Good point. Kretchmann portrayed Fegelein in 'Downfall' and I thought did a good job - and the interview with him on the special-edition DVD is worth seeing, too......

 

Only interested to see whether it beats " Pearl Harbor" or not in received money from the theaters....

 

Totally agree.

 

Perhaps because of the sensitivity of the subject (the war). Now, we are seeing more movies from Germany as well as Italy and the quality of acting and plots are superb (IMO). I know there was a movie about the plot but I think it may have been a History Channel type of documentary???? I will search into the cobwebbed memory banks of my brain and see If I can pull out a name.

 

What I do like about the foreign movies is that they are not afraid of being realistic and show war for what it is whereas American movies tend to be 'Hollywoodish' and geared more for entertainment rather than dramatic and accurate.

 

I still cannot recall the name but after some thought I think it was a part of a movie (a good portion of it though) and not solely about the 20 July attempt so I guess there is no movie with 20 July as the sole plot. I hope they do not make it into a 'Pearl Harbor' and detract from the historical aspect.

 

Not the movie PzJgr is referring to, but the July Plot is obliquely hinted at in the 1967 film 'The Night Of The Generals' ; Harry Andrews appears as von Stulpnagel and Stauffenberg was played by an actor named Gerhard Buhr.....

 

Wonder who they get to play Hitler? John Travolta?

 

Orlando Bloom.

 

Valkyrie (2008)

David Bamber...

 

The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990) starring Brad Davis as Stauffenberg. It was a made-for-television movie and suffered from lack of budget. It's not a great film, but it is enjoyable nonetheless.