Sam Worthington will star opposite Helen Mirren in The Debt, director John Madden's action film for Miramax.

According to 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.

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.