Updated at 2:35 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Tom Cruise film with Hawaii connection out 8/8/08
By Gina Piccalo and Sheigh Crabtree
Los Angeles Times
Cruise, who is also one of the film's producers, stars as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the leader of a July 1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb. Valkyrie was the code name for Stauffenberg's plot.
Chris Lee, chairman of the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai'i, is an executive producer on the film. Bryan Singer ("Superman Returns") directs and is also a producer.
The film will have plenty of competition if that Friday date holds. Universal's "Hellboy 2" and Buena Vista's animated feature "South of the Border" are due out Aug. 1. New Line's Brendan Fraser adventure "Journey 3-D," Warner Bros.' "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" and Sony's Seth Rogen comedy "The Pineapple Express" are all slated for release Aug. 8.
Last month, Germany barred "Valkyrie" filmmakers from shooting at the "Bendlerblock" memorial in the Defense Ministry complex in Berlin because Cruise is a Scientologist. The government considers Scientology a cult.
