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!!!
