‘Valkyrie’ Nazi Extras Sue Tom’s UA Studio

COMMENTS (11)

• How typical, Nazi’s always acting the victim.

  Comment by Bob — Monday August 25, 2008 @ 11:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• WWII is a hobby of mine and I love war movies but I have absolutely no desire to see this. And this news just sealed the deal. Cruise and Wagner couldn’t pony up $10 for some screws for christ’s sake?

  Comment by peggy — Monday August 25, 2008 @ 11:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Studio memo about the problem?
  Two word solution: Stunt pay!
  No lawsuit for stunts.
  Next time they’ll know better but they won’t act better.

  Comment by reelbusy — Tuesday August 26, 2008 @ 12:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow. That Der Spiegel article has a S@#& load of errors in it.

  Comment by puh-leeze — Tuesday August 26, 2008 @ 5:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• camp classic for christmas

  Comment by schultzie — Tuesday August 26, 2008 @ 6:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• @peggy , you’re assuming the plaintiffs are actually telling the truth about this “memo”. How would extras know about an internal company memo? Most of the time they don’t even get scripts!

  Comment by Enrique — Tuesday August 26, 2008 @ 8:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• The Nazi extras will have to show negligence, and then usually their award would be confined to actual damages. I’m assuming UA had insurance and took care of their hospital bills (although with German National Health, it probably was free). That just leaves lost wages and psychological damages (they can never wear a Nazi uniform again – that might be a good thing – or sit in the back of an open-air truck – how often does that happen).

  Bottom line, it sounds like one of those nuisance suits. They probably think Tom Cruise will pay for it. And they’re filing now rather than after the movie’s release because they know this isn’t going to be a big blockbuster.

  Comment by Dan Zee — Tuesday August 26, 2008 @ 8:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• $11 million is a ridiculous amount for a bunch of extras to sue for when no-one was seriously hurt. Greedy A-holes. They’ll be lucky to get $11 each tops.

  Comment by Trigger — Tuesday August 26, 2008 @ 1:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I hope somebody puts the footage on youtube. I’d like to hear about one project where some extras didn’t try to fuck the production out of something. AND they’re the majority that advocate voting pro strike. PS – I thought Germans weren’t allowed to wear Nazi uniforms at all ever again?

  Comment by Rome is Burning — Tuesday August 26, 2008 @ 4:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• You may, for historic purposes – like this one.

  I.E. for courses of action taking place or historical occurences. Please don’t mix up with ‘reenactments’.

  So you can film scenes to flesh out your film. You may not throw a party where everyone has to wear swastikas.

  In a nutshell: Nazi symbilosm is verboten, and not in a lax way. There are exceptions, but they are only related to history.

  You may film ‘Downfall’. But the ‘Wolfenstein’ Game will not have Nazi symbols in the German distribution.

  Comment by Mertel — Wednesday August 27, 2008 @ 5:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree with the one who said this is a camp classic in the making. VALKYRIE is Tom Cruise’s answer to Faye Dunaway’s MOMMIE DEAREST and his career will hopefully go as far into the toilet as hers went. I still haven’t gotten over Tommy’s hilarious marching in TAPS back in the 1980s when we were hilariously supposed to believe that Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton and other military types would quake in Tommy’s puny presence. In regard to the accident in Germany, I’m not surprised because everyone knows Hollywood filmmakers treat overseas cast and crew worse than shit. Too bad some of the guys didn’t die so Tommy would get sued for everything he’s got (and doesn’t deserve).

  Comment by Crystal Diane stevens — Wednesday August 27, 2008 @ 11:56am PDT  Reply to this post