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Weinsteins get their own Valykrie
As if Tom Cruise didn’t have enough to worry about considering his role in Valykrie has been getting less than raving results from the critics. Now the Weinsteins have dug up a German film based on the same story and intend to release it to the US market.
The Weinstein Company has picked up U.S. theatrical, DVD and television rights to the 2004 German film Operation Valykrie, a dramatization of the failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II. Sound familiar? That’s because Bryan Singer’s upcoming 2009 release, Valkyrie, tells precisely the same story, with Tom Cruise in the role of would-be assassin Col. Claus Von Stauffenberg.
Add to this double release of the same story, the star of the German Operation Valykrie is Sebastian Koch who also stars in Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book across from Carice van Houten, who of course is Tom Cruise’s co-star in Valykrie.
My head hurts.
Will this drama only serve to draw more attention to both films?
Do you think that the Weinsteins would have picked up the rights to this German film if it wasn’t for all the publicity Tom Cruise’s Valykrie was getting?
Oh the drama. This is like dating a buddy’s ex in highschool. Hey man! I was there first!!!
Ooh, nice. Koch is a good actor.
Stick it in and break it off Weinsteins!!
The fricken plot of this film is so well known who even cares about ether version?
I’m really worried about VALKYRIE, I had pretty high hopes for this film and it was one of my most anticipated movies 2008.
The delays however,are not a good sign.
I watched part of the trailer for Valkyrie, and was really excited about it!
…and then I saw Tom Cruise.
..and then I noticed his total lack of accent.
I’ll be watching the German one.
I’m starting to think that Valkyrie is going to be a huge failure despite the great casting.
not a tom cruise fan but i love kenneth branagh, so i will sacrifice myself for him and actually see it.