{"id":4582,"date":"2009-01-24T20:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T20:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2009-01-24T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T20:04:48","slug":"interviews-valkyrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/01\/24\/interviews-valkyrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviews: Valkyrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0985699\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4583\" title=\"Valkyrie poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/valkyrie-post.jpg\" alt=\"Valkyrie poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0985699\/\">Valkyrie<\/a><\/strong> is a new film set during\u00a0<a title=\"World War II\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\">World War II<\/a>\u00a0that depicts the plot to kill\u00a0<a title=\"Adolf Hitler\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\">Adolf Hitler<\/a>\u00a0by German army officers in\u00a0<a title=\"20 July plot\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/20_July_plot\">July, 1944<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bryan_Singer\">Bryan Singer<\/a>\u00a0and written by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_McQuarrie\">Christopher McQuarrie<\/a>, it stars\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Cruise\">Tom Cruise<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claus_von_Stauffenberg\">Claus von Stauffenberg<\/a>, one of the key figures in the conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>It also features Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp and Tom Wilkinson in key supporting roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke in London with several of the major players in the film:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001741\/\">Bryan Singer<\/a><\/strong> (Director)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0003160\/\"><strong>Christopher McQuarrie<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1267492\/\"><strong>Nathan Alexander<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Screenwriters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0631490\/\"><strong>Bill Nighy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Friedrich Olbricht\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedrich_Olbricht\">Friedrich Olbricht<\/a>) &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0412850\/\"><strong>Eddie Izzard<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Erich Fellgiebel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erich_Fellgiebel\">Erich Fellgiebel<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0470981\/\"><strong>Thomas Kretschmann<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Otto Ernst Remer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Ernst_Remer\">Otto Ernst Remer<\/a>) &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0075321\/\"><strong>Christian Berkel<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albrecht_Mertz_von_Quirnheim\">Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1756674\/\"><strong>Jamie Parker<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Werner von Haeften\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werner_von_Haeften\">Werner von Haeften<\/a>) &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0390903\/\"><strong>Tom Hollander<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(<a title=\"Heinz Brandt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heinz_Brandt\">Heinz Brandt<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can listen to the interviews here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Valkyrie_Interviews.mp3]\n<p>You can download this\u00a0interview\u00a0as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Valkyrie<\/strong><\/em><em> <\/em><em>is out now at UK cinemas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Valkyrie_Interviews.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0985699\/\">Valkyrie<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/20_July_plot\">Find out more about the July 20th plot to kill Hitler at Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Image: United Artists \/ 20th Century Fox \u00a0\u00a9 2008]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valkyrie is a new film set during\u00a0World War II\u00a0that depicts the plot to kill\u00a0Adolf Hitler\u00a0by German army officers in\u00a0July, 1944. Directed by\u00a0Bryan Singer\u00a0and written by\u00a0Christopher McQuarrie, it stars\u00a0Tom Cruise\u00a0as\u00a0Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the key figures in the conspiracy. It also features Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, Terence Stamp and Tom Wilkinson in key supporting roles.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[774,772,773,775,138,738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}