[August]

Woah, people are jumping on the intolerance bandwagon pretty quickly here.

Is this cult making the movie, or is (was) Cruise just going to be acting in it? That is the key question here imo. If it's the latter then what Germany is saying is that no one associated with an unpopular "religion" has a right to make a living on their soil. It's their business i guess, being their country, but i'll be expecting them to apply that standard to every Scientology member within their borders from big shot actors on down to a lowly convenience store clerk. Equal treatment under the law is the foundation of a representative government.

The only valid argument here imo is that the family doesn't want it and that's more an emotional opinion than a realistic one, because while I believe families should have some say in how historical events concerning their ancestors are portrayed, denying the freedom of expression based on who a person is, rather than what he has done or what he is saying (the old yelling fire in a theater analogy), is plain wrong.