Miramax has set Helen Mirren to play a Mossad agent in director John Madden's war drama The Debt.

According to Variety, the English-language remake of Israeli thriller Ha-hov is about three Israeli Mossad agents tracking down a Nazi war criminal over 30 years.

Matthew Vaughn is re-uniting with Stardust co-writer Jane Goldman to pen the script.

Production is set to start next year in the U.K., Germany and Israel.

Debt was released in 2010 and stars Gila Almagor, Neta Garty, Yehezkel Lazarov, Alexander Peleg, Edgar Selge, Oded Teomi, Itay Tiran. The film is directed by Assaf Bernstein.