I'm personally waiting for Tom to go the 'method acting route' and have several amputations in order to get into the role, although this is going to make life hard for him, as he already can't act either with or without one hand tied behind his back. As evidenced by his 'Oirish' accent in Far and Away, so gawd alone knows what kind of a travesty attempting to play a German is going to result in.
Chock