Valkyrie, the Bryan Singer movie starring an eye-patched Tom Cruise as a German general involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler has had its release date pushed back from this October to February 13, 2009. This is the second time that the troubled production, which first generated headlines by upsetting Germans who wanted Cruise to git off their land, has had its release date rescheduled; once upon a time, it was a much-anticipated summer release, and the center of Cruise and producer Paula Wagner's plans to rejuvenate United Artists. (The previous center of that particular campaign, Lions for Lambs, crash landed into theaters last fall.) The reason for the original push-back was that Singer needed additional time to finish the film--and, rather astonishingly, he still does.
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