Tom Cruise & Doctored Publicity Photo Mystery

It appears that Tom Cruise‘s movie Valkyrie is in the midst of yet even more controversy.

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Valkyrie, you’ll recall, is the Bryan Singer-directed thriller in which Cruise plays a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler. That project has hit some bumps on its way to theaters.

Germany wants to know, who photoshopped the real photo of von Stauffenberg? In fact, they’re fighting mad over it.

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Slate reports,

Our (not definitive) search didn’t turn up any German press about this alleged photo tweaking. When we asked United Artists, the studio said that tweaking didn’t happen. We took a look at an AP photo and then at the image used by United Artists.

And we weren’t sure. So we submitted the pictures to our experts at Slate.

Jim Festante, a Slate designer, wrote: “Look @ the nose, mouth, and chin. Definite (but slight) altering. Also, the head’s width is squeezed slightly.” And then designer Holly Allen added this: “To me, the nose looks different and definitely the eyebrows. Cheekbones and angle of the chin, too.”

Looks like someone tweaked the photo. Finding out who may be mission: impossible.

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