Tom Cruise’s Nazi Photoshop job for Valkyrie
Source: The Guardian
Written by Kate Connolly
Did United Artists doctor a photo of anti-Hitler plotter Claus von Stauffenberg to make him look more like the Top Gun actor?
The latest eyebrow-raiser over Valkyrie, the troubled screen version of the failed assassination plot against Adolf Hitler, comes in the form of promotion stills issued by United Artists which, it is claimed, have been doctored. Film bloggers seem fairly united in their belief that a photo of the would-be assassin, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, has been altered to make him look more like Tom Cruise, the actor who plays him in the Bryan Singer thriller due out next February.
The speculation began on slate.com, whose designers say Stauffenberg’s nose, eyebrows, chin and cheek bones have been manipulated. United Artists have so far refused to comment. But speculation in Germany is rife that the alleged doctoring took place in order to increase acceptance towards Cruise playing a man considered to be the country’s greatest hero.