
And this is coming from the country that used to be made up of Nazis, mind you. They fucking know crazy assholes when they see them. Reuters reports that Germany has banned the producers of the upcoming WWII film Valkyrie from filming at German military sites, so long as Tom Cruise is playing the lead.
Tom Cruise will portray Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the German leader of an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944. The German government was pleasantly direct in explaining why they didn’t want Cruise there: they essentially called it a money-grubbing “cult,” and that the government refuses to honor it as a religion. Germany’s extreme sense of Aryan guilt instilled a deep sense of pride in the real-life Claus von Stauffenberg, and to see him portrayed by a four-foot maniac cult member would be understandably upsetting. Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment, ostensibly because he was force-feeding Katie Holmes diet pills and covering himself in chocolate syrup.



