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29 March 2007 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

A based-on-fact movie about the plot by a group of German generals to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II was greenlit in only about a month, after the writers, Chris McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, got together with director Bryan Singer, who in turn took the movie to Tom Cruise, syndicated columnist Liz Smith disclosed today (Thursday). The movie, Valkyrie, is set to become the first film to be produced by United Artists since Cruise took over as head of the studio last November. He will also star in the movie as the German colonel, Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, who led the "July Plot" to kill Hitler. Singer told Smith, "In the back of my mind I always thought Tom would be a great fit for this role." Earlier this week a member of von Stauffenberg's family expressed concern that Cruise might use the film to champion Scientology and "get across its propaganda."

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