Lest we be called traitors, be warned, Valkyrie may not be the shit show we heard it once was. Whatever has changed in the rumor-and-buzz climate is sure to be the calculated work of some faceless marketing department, but occasionally those think-tanks work - thank God, because someone is paying them enough.

Though use of the SAW theme over the end of the trailer was a little obvious given it’s the week after SAW V opened and IS Halloween, but the premise behind the preview is solid…

Cruise plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic German officer who led the heroic attempt to bring down the Nazi regime and end the war by planting a bomb in Hitler’s bunker. The “July 20 Plot” on Hitler’s life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War Two. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler’s once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize control of his nation’s government… He must kill Hitler himself.

Look for it ’round Christmas this year.