The Debt

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=46510


Madden to Direct Nazi-Hunter Thriller The Debt
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
July 3, 2008


John Madden is in negotiations to direct the Nazi-hunter thriller The Debt for Miramax, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Matthew Vaughn (upcoming ThorHaHov with writer Jane Goldman (Stardust). Vaughn, who will produce the project with Marv Films partner Kris Thykier, also is a partner with longtime collaborator Guy Ritchie in Ska Films (Snatch).

Assaf Bernstein's HaHov follows a trio of 1960s Israeli intelligence agents who pursue a Nazi war criminal only to have him escape. More than 30 years later, their target re-emerges, forcing one of the agents to track him down and preserve their decades-old cover-up. As with the original, the remake is expected to feature two actresses playing the female protagonist in the '60s and '90s.

 

[tzarinna]

I don't think I'm familiar with the original. I guess it could be a fresh interpretation with the help of Ritchie.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=23323

Helen Mirren Has A Debt
She'll star in John Madden's thriller
Source: Variety


Dame Helen Mirren has signed on to take the lead role in John Madden’s upcoming thriller, The Debt.

Mirren will play a former Mossad agent who, along with two colleagues, fails to capture a Nazi war criminal. They decide to cover their tracks, only for the criminal to resurface thirty years later, prompting Mirren to track him down before the truth can be revealed.

Seems like this could be a doozy of a role for the ever-wonderful Mirren – not only will there be a great deal of soul-searching and self-examination, there should be the chance to see a sixtysomething woman kick arse on the big screen.

To be honest, we should have seen Mirren’s casting coming the minute we discovered that the plot called for two actresses to play the main character – one in her thirties, and the other in her sixties. Quite frankly, there aren’t many actresses around these days who could handle a role like this – and Mirren is at the top of a very short list.

The movie, which starts filming next year, is a co-production between Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films, and Miramax. Vaughn is writing the script, with his Stardust cohort, Jane Goldman.

 

[Two-Face]

Cool! I like Helen Mirren.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50445

Sam Worthington is in Debt
Source: Variety
November 12, 2008


Sam Worthington will star with Helen Mirren in Debt, the John Madden-directed action film for Miramax, reports Variety.

Worthington and Mirren play Israeli Mossad agents hunting a Nazi war criminal. The film is an English-language remake of the Israeli thriller Ha-hov.

The redo is a co-production with Marv Films, the U.K.-based company run by Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier. Vaughn wrote the script with Jane Goldman.

Worthington is also negotiating to play Perseus in Warner Bros.' Clash of the Titans, the Louis Leterrier-directed remake that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures for a spring start. He is the star of the James Cameron-directed Avatar, which 20th Century Fox releases Dec. 18, 2009, and he stars with Christian Bale in the McG-directed Terminator Salvation, which Warner Bros. will release May 22.

 

[Dr. Evil]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=23323

Helen Mirren Has A Debt
She'll star in John Madden's thriller
Source: Variety


Dame Helen Mirren has signed on to take the lead role in John Madden’s upcoming thriller, The Debt.

Mirren will play a former Mossad agent who, along with two colleagues, fails to capture a Nazi war criminal. They decide to cover their tracks, only for the criminal to resurface thirty years later, prompting Mirren to track him down before the truth can be revealed.

Seems like this could be a doozy of a role for the ever-wonderful Mirren – not only will there be a great deal of soul-searching and self-examination, there should be the chance to see a sixtysomething woman kick arse on the big screen.

To be honest, we should have seen Mirren’s casting coming the minute we discovered that the plot called for two actresses to play the main character – one in her thirties, and the other in her sixties. Quite frankly, there aren’t many actresses around these days who could handle a role like this – and Mirren is at the top of a very short list.

The movie, which starts filming next year, is a co-production between Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films, and Miramax. Vaughn is writing the script, with his Stardust cohort, Jane Goldman.

So, Helen Mirren will be packing heat? Nice. She's had experience playing roles where she packs heat. She was on that one BBC program (forgot what it was called) where she played a detective and there were subsequent TV Movies about it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24149

Wilkinson And Hinds Have A Debt
Actors join John Madden's new thriller

Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Chastain are in John Madden’s Debt. Well, The Debt, to be precise, given that the trio have signed on to join Madden’s thriller, which stars Helen Mirren as an ex-Mossad agent who is forced to hunt down a Nazi target thirty years after he was supposedly killed.

Chastain, a relative newcomer who recently completed a role in Terrence Malick’s Tree Of Life, will play the younger version of Mirren’s character, Rachel Singer, who is one of three Mossad agents who hunt down the Nazi in the 1960s.

Hinds and Wilkinson, those excellent character actors, will play Mossad agents, joining a fine cast that already includes so-hot-right-now Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen (Mr. White in the new Bond films), and Romi Aboulafia.

The film – written by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan; and produced by Vaughn, Kris Thykier and Eduardo Rossoff – recently began filming in London, and will soon move to Budapest and Tel Aviv.

 

[tzarinna]

Wilkinson will most certainly rock this movie.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Project862006]

Official Trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810067768/video/20972054

looks very interesting

 

[That-Guy]

Marginally talented actor Sam Worthington gets to star in movies with Tom Wilkinson and Helen Mirren, while I struggle to make ends meet.

The world sucks.

 

[Doctor Jones]

When I read this thread title and saw Madden I thought WTF? Then I read John Madden and said WTF? "That Sam Worthington. I'll tell ya, he's a real talent. So talented I'd have him over for dinner at my house to meet my wife."

Sam Worthington should be in this film. Go do Clash of the Titans 2 and be bland.

Saw the trailer. This could go either way. It could be kind of cool but it could just be a mediocre film. I like the visual style, but other than that this could be just a bland thriller.

 

[TNC9852002]

Looks aight.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=77455

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Hey another hideous, unispired poster! I could make that in Paint. The art of movie posters is as dead as a ****ing doornail.

 

[Heisenberg]

I don't think the art of movie poster making is dead, there are a few a year that still make an impact. But yes, it's easier and cheaper to photoshop unfortunately.