Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie Pushed to 2009
Posted by Maggie Van Ostrand (maggie@filmschoolrejects.com) on May 11, 2008
Tom Cruise’s next flop has been taken off the schedule. It was first postponed from this summer to this autumn. Now it’s not expected to open until 2009. Or perhaps not at all.
Valkyrie, the story of a failed assassination plot against Adolph Hitler in 1944 has had more problems filming than Hitler had in the entire war. Accidents, inability to get local permission to film in some locations, more accidents, footage damaged in the labs, etc.
The news came as another blow to Cruise whose 2007 Lions for Lambs, made by his studio United Artists, proved to be a whole lot less than a box office smash.
One Hollywood critic said “Valkyrie is dead,” and another said the film’s problems might wreck Cruise’s attempt to revive UA.
Valkyrie was directed by Brian Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men) at a cost of about $100 million. Test audiences were unimpressed. They didn’t respond favorably to Cruise’s German accent in his role as officer Claus von Stauffenberg. Valkyrie also starred Bill Nighy and Kenneth Branagh.
We’ll let you know what we know when we know it.
Source: The Times Online
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