WW2 TUESDAY: EDDIE IZZARD, JUDI DENCH, JAMES D'ARCY, JIM BROADBENT VS NAZIS IN 'SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT' PERIOD SET THRILLER! 1ST PHOTO FROM 'DAS BOOT' TV SERIES WITH JAMES D'ARCY, TOM WLASCHIHA, VINCENT KARTHEISER

  'SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT' 

WITH EDDIE IZZARD, JUDI DENCH, JAMES D'ARCY, JIM BROADBENT

James D'Arcy will play a Captain in the movie

We're still sticking to our good old period set drama genre with the news that the shooting has begun on SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT which boasts an exquisite selection of British thespians in the cast lead by Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, James D'Arcy, Celyn Jones (who also wrote the script) and Jim Broadbent!

In the movie,  based on true events from 1939, Izzard, who recently already played with Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul, plays a teacher named Thomas Miller who has taken a last minute and controversial role teaching English to the daughters of high ranking Nazis at the Augusta

Judi Dench will be the strict headmistress!

Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast of England. Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of German womanhood. When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it triggers a sequence of deadly events and leaves Thomas running from the police with the threat of being hanged for murder.

  WW2 'DAS BOOT' SERIES

FIRST PHOTO EMERGES!

Speaking of James D'Arcy check out the first photo from DAS BOOT TV series  which also stars Tom Wlaschiha, Vincent Kartheiser and Thierry Frémont alongside Lizzy Caplan! Inspired by the Oscar nominated film of

Franz Dinda, Rick Okon and August Wittgenstein in Das Boot

the same name from Wolfgang Petersen, the eight part series has the story set on a submarine in autumn 1942, as U-boat warfare becomes increasingly brutal. While a very young crew put out to sea on a dangerous combat patrol, the Résistance rises in the U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.