Focus Features Will Release Delayed Miramax Film 'The Debt'

One of the more promising films that was delayed when Miramax closed its doors last year is John Madden's The Debt. Based on a script by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) and Peter Straughan, the film features Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Helen Mirren in a remake of the 2007 Israeli film Ha-Hov, about a trio of Mossad agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal.

Now Focus Features will release the film in the US, later this year.

The cast also includes Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen, Ciarán Hinds, and Tom Wilkinson. A press release announces an August 31 release in the US, and plans for Universal Pictures International to release the film overseas this year, as well. It also offers this synopsis:

The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (played by Ms. Mirren) and Stefan (Mr. Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Mr. Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Ms. Chastain, Mr. Csokas, and Mr. Worthington) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Mr. Christensen) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.

Here's the Miramax-era trailer, which we originally presented back in July of last year: