Cruise film reshoots unusable Benderblock footage

Tom Cruise's latest movie 'Valkyrie' has suffered a setback - after finally having a ban on filming inside an important German historical location overturned, the footage shot there has turned out to be unusable.

Crucial scenes filmed at the Bendlerblock in Berlin, where a number of German officers were executed after an abortive attempt to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1944, will now have to be reshot by director Bryan Singer.

A spokeswoman for the production company tells German newspaper Bild: "A majority of the film material is unusable. We have to film it again."

Colin Ullman, a representative for the firm that delivered the footage shot to a post-production studio in Munich, adds, "The production company told us that there were problems with the negative development in Arri Munich, one of the top post-production companies in Germany. The images were wiped away."

Fortunately for Singer and Cruise, the German government has agreed to allow them further access to the Bendlerblock.

They had previously been banned from filming at there because officials did not want the "dignity of the place" to be violated.

In the movie, Cruise portrays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who was put to death after plotting to blow-up Hitler.