Injured Valkyrie extras offered settlement
Studio bosses on Tom Cruise’s troubled World War II movie Valkyrie have offered a dozen extras who were injured on-set a settlement.
The film, which has been pushed back twice, was hit by a legal row, with 12 actors claiming they were thrown from a moving vehicle while filming a scene for the film.
The extras received minor injuries in the incident, with one being hospitalised due to serious injuries.
The injured parties were seeking GBP5.5 million in compensation from Cruise’s United Artists production company.
And despite the studio offering the extras a settlement, a representative for the movie claims they have not “reacted” to the offer.
Charles Woebcken, president and chief executive of Studio Babelsberg AG, which co-produced the film with United Artists, says, “”We have offered a settlement. But they haven’t even reacted.”
And Woebcken slammed the extras for not coming to him first, stating leaking the story to the media was a publicity stunt.
He adds, “In America, these things happen. You have a different system in Germany. If you lose an arm, it’s not worth a million dollars.
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