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About Valkyrie - Christopher McQuarrie InterviewBy History Net staff | World War II | Single Page | 4 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post  Tom Cruise as Claus von Stauffenberg in the movie Valkyrie. United Artists photo. Subscribe Today
HistoryNet, in partnership with ArmchairGeneral.com, has published an exclusive interview with Christopher McQuarrie, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind the United Artists movie Valkyrie, scheduled for release December 26, 2009. Directed by Brian Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men) and starring Tom Cruise (Born on the Fourth of July, the Mission Impossible series), Valkyrie is a historical thriller based on the July 20, 1944, attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The central character is Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who planted the bomb at Hitler's meeting with his generals.
For more on the real Claus von Stauffenberg – including information gleaned from interviews with his son, telling of the horrors his family faced as a result of his father's actions – see the January 2009 issue of World War II magazine, on sale December 16. Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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4 Comments to “About Valkyrie - Christopher McQuarrie Interview”
I haven't read this article but I like how you are covering Claus von Stauffenberg but it looks good. I have been suscribed to your magazine since my Pop-pop gave me all his old ones. He was on a B-17 in World War II and had a attache case handcuffed to his wrist, he would deliver messages to the French Resistence. Unfourtunatly he passed away almost a year ago. Now I have my own magazine subscription to Aviaton History, Military History, and World War II. I can't wait to get the new issues espically World War II.
Thank You
Conor Age 12
By WWII Buff on Dec 17, 2008 at 9:20 am
IM GOING 2 CHECK OUT THIS MOVIE TONIGHT! I'VE HAD GREAT REVIEWS & RESPONSES WHEN I'VE ASKED ABOUT THE FILM! IM EXPECTING AN AWESOME PERFORMANCE BY TOM "THE DON" CRUISE!
YOUNG NIT'O RICO SUAVE
By BENNETT E. EUTSY on Jan 10, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I saw this movie and I must say it was spectacular. My grandfather (Navy veteran) and I went to go see it we were on the edge of our seats the entire time! Even though you know Stauffenburg historically fails in the end, you can't help but hope he somehow wins by some miracle. Tom Cruise did his usual movie magic and acted it out perfectly. The movie also made me realize that not all Nazis exactly supported the madness of Hitler, they still held in their minds the preservation of lives and the world.
By Hayden Bridges on Feb 3, 2009 at 10:07 pm
More correctly, not all Germans of the '30s and '40s were Nazis. The majority were patriotic Germans … mis-led and mis-informed but patriots never the less.
Many were soldiers doing the same things soldiers in any country do for that country. At the time however there were not enough of these for the Nazis had control.
Dave
http://www.dmmcgowan.blogspot.com
By Dave McGowan on May 18, 2009 at 7:30 pm