Just say no to Cruise.
Tom Cruise is set to play the role of a man who tried to kill Adolf Hitler — but the descendants of the would-be assassin are saying nein to the casting.
United Artists, the studio that Cruise now heads, said to be working on a film about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a Bavarian aristocrat-turned-colonel who in 1944 planted a bomb under a table in an effort to kill the Fuhrer. The blast killed four members of his inner circle, but Hitler survived, and von Stauffenberg was executed.
But the late officer’s grandson says the family is concerned that the film will be used to promote Cruise’s religion, Scientology.
“I have nothing against (Cruise) and can even separate his work from his beliefs in Scientology,” Count Caspar Schenk von Stauffenberg said, reports the newspaper, The Scotsman. “But I and other family members are worried that the picture will be financed by the sect and be used to get across its propaganda. Unfortunately, the family Stauffenberg can do nothing about this. My grandfather is a figure from history.”
