We have our first insider news about the quality of Valkyrie, and it isn’t good. We get the following scoop from out friends at cinematical:
According to Fox News’ Roger Friedman, it’s not looking good for Bryan Singer’s historical drama, Valkyrie. According to Friedman, “Valkyrie is a set up for not only failure, but ridicule.” Friedman goes on to take shots at Cruise’s attempts at a German accent and even Singer and Christopher McQuarrie’s dialog gets a few (dis) honorable mentions. Although, to be fair, I wouldn’t count on a gossip reporter from Fox to be the final word on film criticism.
I must admit, when Valkyrie moved from a summer release date to October 3 – red lights started going off in my head. Tom Cruise historically has been a summer blockbuster heavyweight. For this film to MOVE from the sumer, to the fall tells me that it is either not strong enough to compete with the contenders, or it flat out sucks and they are dumping it when they can and will give the summer weekend to another picture.
I could be way off and be reading too much into a date change, but when Roger Friedman starts to throw rumors like this around…my suspicions start to have more weight. Time will tell, and all of us will be able to judge for ourselves soon enough. If this film tanks, I am wondering what it will mean for Cruise. Has he jumped the shark? Has he fallen out of favor with the public? Has Xenu forsaken him? International friends, I ask you – if this film is a failure will it be a coincidence or clear writing on the wall that Cruise is no longer a star that people care to see?
