| Fears Cruise will use Nazi film as scientology propaganda
Tom Cruise's casting in a new wartime thriller has sparked fears he may use it to promote Scientology.
The actor is to star as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg - who attempted to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler - but Stauffenberg's grandson has voiced his family's concerns the film could be influenced by the sci-fi cult.
Count Caspar Schenk von Stauffenberg said: "I have nothing against Cruise and can even separate his work from his beliefs in Scientology.
"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."
The as yet untitled war thriller tells the true story of Stauffenberg, a Bavarian aristocrat-turned-colonel, who planted a bomb in an attempt to kill Hitler in 1944. The Fuhrer survived the blast and Stauffenberg was later executed.
source:Bang! Showbiz |