Valkyrie

[Galactus]

Source: Variety March 14, 2007


United Artists' Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner have greenlit their second film, an original thriller that Bryan Singer will direct as his next feature, reports Variety.

The untitled film re-teams Singer with The Usual Suspects screenwriter Chris McQuarrie. Singer and McQuarrie will produce.

Set in WWII, the project is similar to "Suspects" in that it is a multi-character ensemble piece.

Singer and McQuarrie took the project directly to Wagner and Cruise, who agreed to finance it almost immediately.

The film will delay Warner Bros.' hope of mounting a sequel to Superman Returns in the near future, adds the trade. Singer's Bad Hat Harry production company has an overall deal at WB, where he is developing several films that include that sequel and the Harvey Milk biopic The Mayor of Castro Street. Singer is also directing "Football Wives," a series pilot for ABC and ABC TV Studio.

The new project begins production this summer

 

[Hunter Rider]

Cool,this is the type of movie i like to see Singer on.

 

[green]

Interesting, cant wait to hear the cast. I wonder if Cruise is gonna star?

 

[Catman]

Cool,this is the type of movie i like to see Singer on.

Exactly. Usual Suspects is more of Singer's cup of tea than these superhero movies he has been working on for like 7 years now.

Interesting, cant wait to hear the cast. I wonder if Cruise is gonna star?

He won't. He's gonna start filming a movie with Robert Redford.

 

[green]

He won't. He's gonna start filming a movie with Robert Redford.

You mean Lions for Lambs? If so it's already filming and principal photography should be wrapped by the time this gets going, so I think it's possible.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Interesting, So I wonder if Warner Brothers gets a new director for the SR sequel?

 

[Catman]

You mean Lions for Lambs? If so it's already filming and principal photography should be wrapped by the time this gets going, so I think it's possible.

Well, lets wait and see but don't expect Tom Cruise to be in every UA production.

 

[slipknotrocks]

Awsome news.

 

[Motown Marvel]

Interesting, So I wonder if Warner Brothers gets a new director for the SR sequel?

not likely. bryan has been saying for a good while now he plans on making a smaller movie before going back to do the superman sequel. plus, brian has always been great at multi-tasking....he'll likely be doing pre-production for the superman sequel while working on this new film.

 

[blud_knight]

i hope someone else gets to step up and do the superman sequel now

 

[Hunter Rider]

Interesting, cant wait to hear the cast. I wonder if Cruise is gonna star?

Cruise is supposed to be doing "Selling time" for Spike Lee next,it's being prepped now.

 

[green]

Well, lets wait and see but don't expect Tom Cruise to be in every UA production.

Cruise is supposed to be doing "Selling time" for Spike Lee next,it's being prepped now.

Could you two rain on my parade a little more please.

 

[KenK]

Cruise is supposed to be doing "Selling time" for Spike Lee next,it's being prepped now.

TOM CRUISE LOVES THE BLACK MAN! HE LOVES BLACK PEOPLE!! SHOW HIM THE MONAAAAAAAYY!!!!!

(I couldn't help myself t: )

 

[Hunter Rider]

Credit:Pickle-El

Originally Posted by Variety
Cruise set for Singer's WWII film
McQuarrie wrote the script with Alexander
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Bryan Singer
Singer

Tom Cruise
Cruise
United Artists has set Tom Cruise to star for director Bryan Singer in the untitled WWII thriller, which will begin production in the summer.

Chris McQuarrie wrote the script with Nathan Alexander. Singer and McQuarrie will produce, and Alexander will be co-producer.

UA partners Cruise and Paula Wagner made a deal last week for the film (Daily Variety, March 14, 2007), which is the first original project teaming Singer and McQuarrie since "The Usual Suspects."

Cruise and Wagner set the film as UA's second production commitment. The first was "Lions for Lambs," the Robert Redford-directed drama which stars Redford, Cruise and Meryl Streep. That film, scripted by Matthew Michael Carnahan, will be released Nov. 9 by MGM.

Singer and McQuarrie brought the project to Cruise and Wagner because they felt the material would be a good match for UA. Singer, who is in the early stages of mounting a sequel to "Superman Returns," was able to fit it in before the Man of Steel is ready to take off again for Warner Bros. and Legendary.

At the time, Cruise considered it only as a project for the studio. That changed quickly. The thriller is based on actual events, as German generals hatch a scheme to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of WWII.

"After reading the script, Tom and I knew immediately that this was a film we had to make," Wagner said. "As an added bonus, because of Bryan Singer's involvement and Tom's admiration for him as a filmmaker as well as the excellence of the script, the project attracted Tom as an actor. I cannot think of a more perfect combination of creative elements for our second production."

While the thriller is framed in Europe during WWII, it is a relatively inexpensive film compared with the tentpoles that Singer has directed recently. It also has the ensemble character intrigue present in "The Usual Suspects."

green will be pleasedt:

 

[Darth Elektra]

Im glad they got Tom Cruise.

 

[Hunter Rider]

It'll be interesting to see if the leads all speak German

 

[green]

green will be pleasedt:

I knew it. Cruise would never work with Singer without working with Singer, you know what I mean.t:

 

[Dark Donnie]

Glad to hear Cruise will be in it....seems like interesting material

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I hope he sticks to these types of films, they suit him far better.

 

[Max J Power]

Sounds good.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

Doesn't exactly sound like a "small" film before returning to Superman.

And Tom Cruise better be some guy working for the OSS or something whose involved with intel concerning the assassination attempt by Hitler's generals. He'd better NOT be a German general, that would be beyond stupid.

Initially, Cruise was going to play Billy Friske in the movie about the first Americans to fight for the British during the Battle of Britain. Now he's in another WW2 movie?

 

[Cinemaman]

WWII thriller from Bryen Singer and co-writer of The Usual Suspects? That's dream

 

[Warhammer]

Cruise is supposed to be doing "Selling time" for Spike Lee next,it's being prepped now.

That's cool. Spike Lee makes great movies.

Credit:Pickle-El



green will be pleasedt:

I am so happy that Cruise is in this film.
Cruise is probably (or close to being) my favorite actor.

 

[green]

http://www.cinematical.com/

Bryan Singer's Untitled WWII Thriller Now Has a Title -- 'Valkyrie'
Posted Mar 28th 2007 12:01PM by Chris Ullrich
Filed under: Drama, Thrillers, RumorMonger, Newsstand, War
As we've told you recently, Bryan Singer has changed gears a little bit -- instead of jumping directly onto a Superman Returns sequel, he's going to be directing an untitled WWII thriller with his old Usual Suspects collaborator Christopher McQuarrie. Looks like things are moving along briskly, since the untitled film apparently has a title already. According to the Guardian, the film will be called Valkyrie, which was the code name of the plot to assassinate Hitler that the story deals with. Scripted by McQuarrie, Valkyrie concerns real-life Nazi officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg who, along with several others, carried out the famous assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944.

Unfortunately, von Stauffenberg's plan -- an exploding briefcase planted near Hitler during a meeting -- failed to kill the Nazi leader but did end up taking the lives of four of his subordinates. An entire second part of von Stauffenberg's plan, to mount a quick coup of the Nazi leadership and overthrow the regime in one fell swoop, was immediately aborted when Hitler survived the plot, and the conspirators were hunted down within hours. For his efforts, von Stauffenberg was executed by firing squad. The film is being financed by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner through their new United Artists company and its rumored that Cruise is circling the role of von Stauffenberg -- a move that is not sitting well with members of von Stauffenberg's family, as they worry Cruise will use the film to push some hidden Scientology agenda.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I like the title