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Tom Cruise’s movie Valkyrie has been delayed once again. They have postponed its release to 2009, which is the second postponement for this movie. They have pushed the release date back to February 13, which coincides with President’s Day weekend.
“When an opening became available for President’s Day Weekend, we seized the opportunity,” said MGM distribution president Clark Woods, referring to Universal’s recent decision to pull “The Wolf Man” out of that slot and into April 3.
Valkyrie has had its share of headaches. The German government had initially banned the production from shooting the movie at the location where the plot was hatched and the conspirators executed. Some of the footage at the site was damaged during re-processing which then required re-shoots. And last August, 10 extras were injured after falling off the back of a truck in Berlin.
Geez! I hope after all these problems that the move to Presiden’t Day weekend helps salvage this movie. It sounds like a nightmare of an experience to me.
via reuters
they should have just finished it and put it out. this back and forth isn’t going to do the movie any favors.
I agree; they should have wrapped it up and put it out on the scheduled release date. People who are going to see the movie are going to go see it anyway, and people who were never interested aren’t going to see it anyway, regardless of when it’s released.
Mary:
Totally agree with you. My brother is a history Professor, and knows someone who is working on this films historical validity. He explains accuracy was one of their primary goals, and expects besides the lack of German language and accents( which clearly has been discussed) the film should stay within the guidelines of actual events as they occurred. Only time will tell. But either way I am excited to see this film.
….Apparently their is a guy with a very British accent as well in the film and that was quite a discussion at one point.
By the way I am NOT a history buff, and dont really care about the accent thing, so please no one jump down my throat. Just trying to share what I have heard.
Hi Kelly……………Thanks.
Julie…………Help! I think my response here again went to spam.
From a lot of the movies I have seen, actors often don’t change their accents for a particular part. Some period pieces do it more I would think. Depends on the movie I guess. I don’t think TC’s accent in this movie will stand out as much as say the British one since the time period is WWII and Germany was at war with Britain. But that is just my take on it. About the history, from the trailer, I am believing the story they are trying to tell is going to be fairly accurate, historically. Like I have said before, I just have no personal interest in this movie and more than that, my family has decided that we won’t support anything that will fill up the coffers of th CoS. That is it in a nutshell so to speak. I have had to miss some movies I had great interest in because of this, but that is how I feel and everyone is certainly free to follow their own beliefs, accordingly.
If you consider that ‘hateful’, so be it. Your definition of hate is different then mine. I understand this is a fan site and I also enjoy new pictures and stories but there will be varying opinions on any range of things regarding any celebrity. I went to most of TC’s movies up thru Mission Impossible 1. I loved Minority Report, didn’t really get Vanilla Sky. I watched a few minutes of WOW on tv because of all the hoopla going on between ss and tc during the promotion to see what it was all about. It was not nearly as good as either the book or the original, but remakes often are disappointing. Look at the new Halloween. What a waste. My daughters made me watch the original one on tv. I don’t like horror films but you can’t redo and capture what made the first one a classic horror film. That music playing.. nothing like it.
Minority Report was terrific. I really loved War of the Worlds too, Steven Spielberg and Tom make great movies together. I can never judge a movie from only a few minutes of it but that’s just me. The TV rights for it went for over $25 million, we all tune in to see movies like that so the networks know it’s worth it to them I guess.
I would notice US accent more than British. Sorry, but for a non American (and I’m not British either), the US accent sounds really awful in period films. So does any other english-speaking accent except British. British is flat and unobtrusive to me.
Well, I had to reach back a bit into the archives to post on this thread so it would be ‘on topic’. If anyone is interested, there is a brand new article in the NYT on UA dated 4/23 under their movies section that talks about the possible future of UA and the movie Valkyrie. Very good picture of TC on the page even with the eye patch. LOL It talks about the impact the internet is having on the movie business.