Valkyrie film

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United Artists Entertainment announced the start of principal photography on July 18, 2007 in Berlin on the international production of Valkyrie, a suspense thriller based on the true story of the daring German officers' plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944.

The film is directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander.

Tom Cruise heads an international cast as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the German officer who led the attempt to bring down the Nazi regime and end the war by planting a bomb in Hitler's bunker. Also starring are Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Eddie Izzard, Christian Berkel, Thomas Kretschmann, and Terrence Stamp.

The film is being produced by Singer, McQuarrie, and Gilbert Adler, with Chris Lee executive producing.

The production team includes director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel, costume designer Joanna Johnston, and editor John Ottman.

The July 20 Plot on Hitler's life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler's once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation's government . . . he must kill Hitler himself.

The film will be shot on location in Germany and elsewhere. It is scheduled to be ready for release by MGM in the summer of 2008.