No longer in ‘Debt’ to Weinsteins, Madden looks towards Miramax project

It has been a strange, difficult trajectory for the director who (with the big help of the Weinsteins) once won the Academy Award for Best Picture for Shakespeare in Love, and now has his latest film shelved for the better part of a couple of years. John Madden has an outside chance at helming The Debt before the Weinstein Co. and MGM decide what to do with the release of the 1989 Elmore Leonard book to screen project Killshot. Variety reports that Madden is in negotiations to direct. 

Written by Matthew Vaughn with writer Jane Goldman (“Stardust”), the remake of Assaf Bernstein’s 2007 Israeli film “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.