via MSNBCYou may have heard that Tom Cruise has inserted himself in a film about Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a Bavarian aristocrat-turned-colonel who in 1944 planted a bomb under a table in an effort to kill Adolph Hitler, but—damn the luck—Hitler survived. The weird part of this story (other than the fact that Tom Cruise needs to be the head of a film studio to get parts these days) is that Stauffenberg’s relatives are worried that Cruise will use Claus’s story to promote Scientology.
“I have nothing against [Cruise] and can even separate his work from his beliefs in Scientology,†Count Caspar Schenk von Stauffenberg said, reports the newspaper, The Scotsman. “But I and other family members are worried that the picture will be financed by the sect and be used to get across its propaganda.â€
Oh come on now… this is ridiculous. Just because exactly at the fateful moment before the bomb explodes, an alien tractor beam pulled Adolph into a Xenu DC-8 so Hitler could continue to keep a Thetan down doesn’t mean Tom Cruise is going to put a Scientology spin on things. History is history, people, and I think we can feel safe believing anything this film tells us about Hitler, the JFK assassination, 9/11, and the mystery surrounding Paris Hilton’s new boobs.