Donnersmarck for Tom Cruise movie in an interview.

Noblesse oblige? In Hollywood speak any case over a contract for staatstragenden director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The Oscar-winner is Tom Cruise with a twist conspiracy thriller - in which Hollywood superstar the U.S. president plays.

 

New York / Los Angeles - Tom Cruise did it with the German aristocracy. After the German resistance hero Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg embodied, he could soon with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck twist. So mutmaßt any case, the film industry magazine Hollywood Reporter. " The director of "Das Leben der Anderen" was in the interview, the director for the political thriller "The 28th Amendment" to take over.

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Also in this film, Cruise would have been a politically explosive, and even state-supporting role: His part would be the U.S. president, the federal government discovered a secret. The course has sinister plans - the assassination of heads of state, for example.

The film was lawyer John Grisham thriller "The Firm" to the White House moved, they say. The plot varies popular conspiracy theories, indicating that a powerful clique in politics and pull the threads off foes. An early version of the screenplay suggests even, John F. Kennedy was of such Geheimbündlern just been murdered.

Non-secret is that Denzel Washington will also play and already has two directors out of the race include: Both Neil Jordan ( "The stranger in yourself") and Philip Noyce ( "Bone Collector") have had discussions with the executive led Warner Studios .

As scriptwriters were Alan Kurtzman and Roberto Orci committed. The two are writing partner and have, inter alia, the Autozerknüll-spectacle "Transformers" on the conscience. Kurtzman also has the new "Star Trek" movie series Star JJ Abrams mitgeschrieben, and both are the Lead Author team
Abrams' new series "Fringe", in which it also goes for political conspiracies.

In order to stay in the picture: The 35-year-old Henckel von Donnersmarck is thus the least-described sheet. He has no new film, since his Stasi drama of 2006 Oscar for best foreign-language film won.