(WENN)
Tom Cruise will most likely be granted permission to shoot his WWII drama in Germany, refuting widely-held rumors that the Scientologist actor had been banned from filming in the European country. At the beginning of this week, Defense Ministry representative, Harald Kammerbauer had said that Cruise and company “will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult.” However, because the subject matter of the film is one that many German officials would enjoy seeing portrayed to a wide audience, a more welcoming sentiment is being expressed toward Cruise and his production company.
The German film industry, however, sees Cruise and production partner Paula Wagner’s film as an important piece of historical nonfiction, with Studio Babelsberg heads Christoph Fisser and Carl Woebcken–who are in talks with UA to sign on as co-producers–calling Valkyrie one of the “too few examples of military opposition to Hitler’s regime.”
And now, it has been reported that while no official paperwork had been filed for the production as of yet, ministry officials have stated they would “look agreeably” upon any request made to do so. Ha! Let Germany deal with Cruisey for a bit. Although, it’s not as much to fun to watch these days, now that he seems to be all settled and stuff. I much rather wish he would have headed over there, back when he was doing all kinds of couch-jumping and love-declaring. Now, he’s just a shell of his former crazy self.
