Bryan Singer’s WWII suspense drama, “Valkyrie,” has itself a final trailer and a final poster. Note who they switched out the yellow-ish, orange for a red in this final poster. We wonder who many focus groups had to be tapped to tell them red was the better color (and did the designer get paid an additional $5,000 for that 2-second photoshop job?). We never liked the poster much, it’s far too austere and modern for this story about a rogue group of Nazi officers that plot to kill Hitler. Even something like the fake posters for “Inglourious Basterds” are far closer in tone to the Nazi/WWII mood and tone that “Valkyrie,” should be shooting for, but oh well. We can say, that this final trailer is better and perhaps that mediocre script has been hammered down, and the creases in the third-act have been ironed-out.
Singer’s film stars Tom Cruise, Terrence Stamp, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branahgh and Eddie Izard. The gorgeous Dutch actress Carice van Houten (“Black Book”) plays Cruise’s wife. On paper, “Valkryie” is aces. It’s got a great director, a great writer (the guy who penned, “The Usual Suspects”) and a great cast, but we’re still wait and see with this one as the aforementioned script was a convoluting and anti-climatic read ultimately. Stamp is a terrific actor though and we’re definitely going to be watching him closely as his role is a rather integral one on paper.