Valkrie hasnt had the smoothest of shoots up to now. The German government initially didnt want to play ball with the filmmakers due to star
Tom Cruises religious beliefs (I would put those words in inverted commas but Id fear being made fair game) and an accident on set left several extras injured. Now, however, it seems the film has gotten a much needed stroke of luck. The German Ministry of Defence has granted permission for the
Bryan Singer helmed film to shoot at the famous
Bendlerblock military building.
The location is pretty integral to the story as its not only where the German conspirators came together and hatched their plan to assassinate Hitler, but also where the same conspiritors are executed by Nazi firing squads. I picked this story up via
Hollywood Elsewhere and site editor Jeffrey Wells makes a good point by saying he hopes Singer doesnt chicken out in the execution scene. Its not that I dislike Cruise and have the subconcious desire to see his body viciously shredded by bullets, but this movie needs that scene to go the distance if its to have any impact. I can happily watch a Cruise film and divorce myself from his bizarre private life, I enjoy him onscreen and think hes a great moviestar, but the general movie going public see him as Tom Cruise the indestructable A-lister. Hence I put it to you that it would be a shocking jar to the audience to see Cruise get a brutal and spectacular death. From what I know about this film and from whats been in the script, as the orders are given to fire the camera cranes away and into the sky as air raid sirens blare out over Germany. Anyone whos studied World War II in school knows how this story ends so Singer needs to throw out subtlety and ambiguity and go with the nasty ending before the final fade to black. source
hollywood elsewhere