Fake Nazis Fall from Truck, Sue United Artists

By Eriq Gardner

As the much-discussed future of Tom Cruise hangs in the balance, his United Artists is being sued for $11 million by a bunch of Nazi-dressed stuntmen who were injured last year after falling from a truck being filmed for UA's forthcoming film "Valkyrie." (Will the scene of 11 injured men in Nazi army uniforms being carted into a hospital in central Berlin make the out-takes? Probably not.)

According to German newspaper Der Spiegel, the complaint alleges that UA knew the truck was faulty. "There had even been an internal memo about the railings," Ariane Bluttner, lawyer for the plaintiffs, told the paper.

The movie, which stars Cruise and concerns an assassination plot on Hitler, has won no love from Germans, who have been forced to put up with hanging swastika banners and Nazi soldiers during filming. But according to Der Spiegel, the bar under German law will be high for the plaintiffs: They will need to show "malice on the part of the production company to override the waivers extras signed before hopping onto the truck."