“Valkyrie” Moved Back to December 2008 & New Photos!

Tom Cruise in Valkyrie

MGM announced today they will be releasing the suspense film, “Valkyrie“, from Director Bryan Singer, on Friday, December 26, 2008. due to “strength of their recent test screenings. “We saw and tested the movie,” says Clark Woods, President of MGM Distribution. “and we believe a strong movie deserves a strong playdate.”

The film will now be battling “Defiance“, the WWII film with Daniel Craig, that opens on December 12th.

Valkyrie is produced by Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie and Gilbert Adler. McQuarrie co-wrote the original screenplay with Nathan Alexander who also serves as co-producer. The executive producers are Chris Lee, Ken Kamins, Daniel M. Snyder, Dwight C. Schar and Mark Shapiro. Continue Reading…

More ‘Valkyrie’ Filming Underway

Bryan Singer’s WW2 thriller “Valkyrie” is about to start two full weeks of extra filming reports Hollywood Elsewhere.

Is it reshoots? Not really according to an MGM spokeswoman. What they are filming “is the big battle scene that was always intended to be shot that didn’t occur in Berlin. These scenes took place in North Africa so they could not be shot in Berlin obviously. So they are not reshooting, but rather [shooting] additional photography” she says.

Dennis Rise, the head of publicity, says

This is not new news. We have always planned to shoot a couple scenes in the first quarter of this year. These are scenes which were always part of the original screenplay and shooting script. Because of the nature of the scenes, they were never intended to be shot in Berlin.

The Tom Cruise thriller follows a conspiracy by German officers to kill Hitler.