Cinema Science

United Artists has released the first look at Tom Cruise in the upcoming Bryan Singer directed Valkyrie. Cruise stars as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic German officer who led the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.

Below are two images of Cruise, the first being a comparison of Stauffenberg (left) to Cruise and the second being a full color look at the actor in his German garb. The resemblance between the two is striking but I'm a little nervous how this is going to turn out. Is Cruise going to be using a German accent? If they aren't going to go all the way and film this in the German language I almost would prefer they go The Last Temptation of Christ route and not use accents at all.