'German Ban won't affect Tom Cruise movie', says Bill Nighy

Actor Bill Nighy, who stars opposite Tom Cruise in ‘Valkyrie’, has claimed that banning shooting of the movie in German military locations will not affect the film ‘one bit’.

Germany's Defence Ministry denied permission in these places because they viewed Cruise’s Scientology belief as ‘a money making cult’.

“I ignore all this stuff. And I don't think it will affect the cast one bit. Valkyrie is a heroic tale that deserves to be told,” New York Post quoted Nighy, as saying.

Cruise is set to play Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the film, who planted a bomb in a briefcase near Hitler’s military headquarters in Rastenburg on July 20, 1944, but while the bomb exploded and killed several officers, Hitler narrowly escaped death, thanks to a large oak table in the room that saved him.

Stauffenberg was caught and executed that night at Bendlerblock, as were 7,000 other sympathizers.