Tom Cruise has gotten so nuts that the descendant of a Nazi bomber doesn’t want him to play his grandfather in an upcoming movie about a failed attempt to assasinate Hitler. Tom has been cast to play Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a Bavarian colonel who attempted to assassinate Hitler by planting a bomb under a table, but missed and ended up killing four other people instead. Now there’s a feel good movie. But some of Stauffenberg’s family aren’t on board with Tom playing Gramps. Stauffenberg’s grandson, Count Caspar Schenk von Stauffenberg, believes the casting of Cruise will only be used to promote Scientology. Now where would he get an idea like that? Fom MSNBC: “I have nothing against [Cruise] and can even separate his work from his beliefs in Scientology…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.” Seriously when you’re considered to wacked to play a Nazi (even a heroic one), its time to get help.
March 28th, 2007
