Wire reports today say that Germany will not allow a movie starring Tom Cruise to film at German military sites because Cruise is a Scientologist. Reuters says:
Cruise, also one of the film's producers, is a member of the Church of Scientology which the German government does not recognize as a church. Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject.
Cruise has been cast as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Nazi dictator in July 1944 with a bomb hidden in a briefcase.
Defense Ministry spokesman Harald Kammerbauer said the film makers "will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult".
I wish the US would stand up to the these crazy whores like the Germans do. What the hell are they gonna do? It's a religion based on spaceships. The worst that can happen is that Cruise will pray to his outer space puma or whatever it is they believe in and then that thing from Lilo and Stich will come to earth, play records and go surfing. I'm willing to take my chances.
I love it when Germans moralize.
second! oh wait, are we not doing that anymore?
Okay, Mr. Cruise, you can be a Scientologist. But beware. We Germans aren't all smiles and sunshine.
This story literally made my year. I hate this ass clown more than anybody. And now that he's a high priestess or something with them, I hate him more. Maybe I'm just jealous that people are worshipping this asshole before me. Whatever.
This movie wouldn't fly in Germany anyway. There are no brown haired, 4'8" Germans with no shoulders. If there ever were any, they were killed.
Well, it looks like Germans have sided with Xenu. So be it. "Contact, Motherstation? This is Emperor Cruise. Ready my ship General, it's time to show those Hun dogs what we're made of"
Hey! Scientology is not a religion based on spaceships.
It's a religion based on the writings of a third-rate science fiction author, one that holds that aliens were destroyed in ancient times when an evil overlord dropped millions of nuclear bombs on them and that particles from them live on in each and every one of us.
Don't try to make it sound nutty or something.
Did somebody say outer space Puma?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dSn2aZG9eB8
Oh please let Paris Hilton convert to Scientology .. pleeeeeeeease!!!!!!
I am the first to criticize Scientology/Xenu Cult as a really destructive thing but are German military sites really the moral high ground here?
man, and i thought nazis were bad people. exterminating jews…kinda rude, exterminating scientologists, sexually stimulating.
germans aren't nazis anymore? when did that happen?
Colonel Claus von PWNED
…. they're not nazis!!! Germans are very sensitive about this also. I really think they didn't want the movie filmed there because they don't want a bunch of idiots dressed up as nazis prancing around their military bases. Maybe its like alcoholism, that one delicious sip could cause them to regress. Are they nazis?
Why doesn't Germany want cultists on its military sites?
Oh.
Hmmm . . . let's see . . . megalomaniacal leader of cult-like ideology running around Germany in military uniform . . . nah, no one would ever believe Cruise in this role . . .
Remember Manuel, don’t say anything about the war. Fun historical fact - Von Stauffenberg had all but three fingers blown off by the Russians before he got the headquarters assignment. Is Tom up to the acting challenge?
The story of the assanation attempt on Mr Hitler is an interesting one and for the hero to be played by Cruise? Well, let's say he wasn't able to make it to the allied lines on time. I can't imagine Cruise playing the part, and neither can a nation of Germans apparently. I guess "you can't come here because you are a cultist" is a nice way to say, "there is no way a tweaked out twirp like you will play one of our national heros." I guess this would be the same if Canada sent Alex P. Keaton…er, Michael J. Fox to play Ben Franklin.
tom cruise is ghey, but i still like some of his moviess…
what ever happened to COLE TRICKLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they replace Tom Cruise with Christina Aguilera's husband (who is a Jewish sorcerer), will the shooting be allowed then?
(I'm trying to pinpoint Germans' breaking point)
yes i am now cole trickle!