MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Footage containing key scenes of Tom Cruise's new German-set film, "Valkyrie," have been ruined and need to be reshot, People.com said Monday.
The filmmakers spent months negotiating before they won permission from the German government to film their historical drama in Bendler Block, the place where the real-life drama involving a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler actually unfolded in 1944.
After the scenes were shot, the film was shipped to a post-production studio in Munich, but the footage was deemed unusable when it arrived.
"A majority of the film material is unusable," a spokeswoman for the production company told the German newspaper Bild. "We have to film it again."
A report by the local newspaper, Tagesspiegel, said the film had been treated with the wrong chemical.
"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," Colin Ullman, a spokesman for the company that delivered the film, told Bild. "The images were wiped away."
The German government has already approved additional filming at the site.
