STAUFFENBERG'S SON ON TOM CRUISE FILM - It's Bound To Be Rubbish

DER SPIEGEL ^ | June 22, 2007 | dgs

[Atlantic Bridge]

Tom Cruise is planning to make a film about the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, playing leading conspirator Claus von Stauffenberg. Stauffenberg's son is not impressed, and has told Cruise to "keep his hands off my father."

There was much excitement in Berlin last weekend when Hollywood actor Tom Cruise came to the German capital to scout filming locations for the upcoming movie "Valkyrie," in which he will play Claus von Stauffenberg -- a leading figure in a failed 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler.

However he would have been unlikely to get a warm reception from Stauffenberg's son, should he have met with him to discuss the role. Stauffenberg Junior is less than thrilled about the celebrity Scientologist playing the role of his father.

"It's bound to be rubbish," 72-year-old Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a retired German army officer and the oldest of Claus von Stauffenberg's five children, told the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published in Friday's edition.

"It is unpleasant for me that an avowed Scientologist will be playing my father," Stauffenberg Junior told the newspaper. He admitted that he seldom went to the cinema or watched television, and that he only knew Cruise from "one of those military films" ("Top Gun").

Claus von Stauffenberg was one of the leading figures in the July 20, 1944 bomb plot against Hitler. Now a new Hollywood movie is being made about the conspiracy.

[Petronski]

Cruise as von Stauffenberg makes me want to hurl.

[Petronski]

Get together a quality, fact-based script and let Cruise . . . STFU.

[DieHard the Hunter]

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Nancy Wake “The White Mouse” of the French Resistence would have been my first pick.

Bonus points: she is still alive and well and (alas!) remains pointedly undecorated by her New Zealand homeland — even tho’ being the most decorated female of WW-II. Most recently snubbed by Helen’s government on the Queen’s Birthday list this past month.

Double-bonus points: in her day, she was devastatingly gorgeous.

*DieHard*

[Gideon T. Reader]

Yes, Hollywood most likely WILL make a film about la Kaplan and it will star Tom Cruise who may become gay just for the part, leaving in doubt the question if he will be a man playing the part of a lesbian, or a female playing the part of a gay man. Or possible both. Even diagonally transgendered and transformed, or simply a transracial transvestite.

[Constantine XIII]

what?

[Dick Bachert]

Petronski,
I really thought you should know that some MORON is posting to FR using your screenname.
Might want to check into that.

[Secret Agent Man]

Cruise looks closer than DeFoe. DeFoe looks like a 100 years old piece of road.

[Petronski]

Dick,

I thought you should know that the post in question means the film should be done but Cruise should STFU.

Got that, Dick?

[Regulator]

Another woman I'd like to see a movie about is Virginia Hall

That would be outstanding.

But undoubtedly Spielberg or someone would make her into some left wing heroine, jazz her up as a Lincoln Brigade type...it's just endless.

[Regulator]

Even diagonally transgendered and transformed, or simply a transracial transvestite

That's hilarious..

[lesser_satan]

This could have been an incredible movie, but they had to get that little metrosexual thetan-worshipper to play the lead role. WTF DID THEY HAVE TO RUIN IT FOR? VERY ANGRY! WTF!!!

[lesser_satan]

On the topic of female assassins, how about a film about Charlotte Corday? She's one of the few heroes of mine who are French (along with Clemenceau and Sarkozy).

[Dick Bachert]

Petronski,
MY BAD. Post just a tad ambiguous and thought the comment was directed at me.

Please accept my apology.

To make it official, I shall book myself on the Oprah Show, jump about madly on her couches, b***h-slap her numerous times and rip open my shirt to disclose the 72 point bright red tat declaring “Petronski Rocks!”

There — now I feel better.

[Petronski]

;OD

[11th Commandment]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plots planned by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in March 1943, imprisoned, and eventually hanged just before the end of the World War II in Europe.

During World War II, Bonhoeffer played a key leadership role in the Confessing Church, which opposed the anti-semitic policies of Adolf Hitler. He was among those who called for wider church resistance to Hitler's treatment of the Jews. While the Confessing Church was not large, it represented a major source of Christian opposition to the Nazi government in Germany. In 1939, Bonhoeffer joined a hidden group of high-ranking military officers based in the Abwehr, or Military intelligence Office, who wanted to overthrow the National Socialist regime by killing Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 after money used to help Jews escape to Switzerland was traced to him. He was charged with conspiracy and imprisoned in Berlin for a year and a half. After the unsuccessful July 20 Plot in 1944, Bonhoeffer's connections to the conspirators were discovered. He was moved to a series of prisons and concentration camps ending at Flossenbürg. Here, he was executed by hanging at dawn on 9 April 1945, just three weeks before the liberation of the city. Also hanged for their parts in the conspiracy were his brother Klaus and his brothers-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi and Rüdiger Schleicher.

[redstates4ever]

Cruise and Travolta should play Hitler and Eva Braun - toss a coin to see who plays who, it’s all the same.