Here is a poster for the upcoming Tom Cruise film, Valkyrie.
While it being a Tom Cruise movie might not be a reason to pay attention, the fact that it is the reunion of the writer (Christopher McQuarrie) and director (Bryan Singer) of The Usual Suspects might be.
Superstar Tom Cruise heads an international cast as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic German officer who led the heroic attempt to bring down the Nazi regime and end the war by planting a bomb in Hitler’s bunker. The “July 20 Plot” on Hitler’s life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler’s once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation’s government… He must kill Hitler himself.
Valkyrie also stars Bill Nighy, Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.
