Considering my Dad is over six feet tall, that would be a stretch–pun intended–but, seriously, the son of the German hero Maverick is set to play in his next “please love me again” movie is not happy about this turn of events. Not at all.

See, Tommy is going to play Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, a German aristocrat who tried, unsuccessfully, to assassinate Hitler in 1944 and Berthold von Stauffenberg just can’t believe it.

“I hoped for a while that it was all just a publicity stunt by Mr Cruise.”

Cruise pull a publicity stunt about a movie? C’mon, that’s like thinking his marriage to his future ex-wife, and immediately siring of a child, is to prove something to the world. And who would believe that?! Pfft!

Von Stauffenberg‘s criticism is not just about The Vertically Challenged One’s devotion to Scientology–a religion that is not recognized as such in Germany–but about his unhappiness with past projects based on his dad. Guess he doesn’t think the dude who mangled an Irish accent in “Far and Away” can handle the role. Wonder why.

“He should keep his hands off my father. He should climb a mountain or go surfing in the Caribbean.

“I don’t care, as long as he stays out of it.”

Oh, and he’s also on record as saying he thinks the movie will be “crap.” Like THAT’S ever stopped Tommy before.