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 Fr�mont 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 R�sistance rises in the U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.

NEW WW2 MOVIES: PENELOPE WILTON, TOM COURTENAY, GUGU MBATHA RAW JOIN GEMMA ARTERTON'S 'SUMMERLAND'! 'HURRICANE' TRAILER AND POSTER WITH IWAN RHEON, SAM HOARE, STEFANIE MARTINI

   WW2 'SUMMERLAND' MOVIE

TOM COURTENAY AND PENELOPE WILTON JOIN GEMMA ARTERTON

Gemma Arterton is also producing the film

Another stellar line-up in the new casting updates arriving over from Cannes! Gemma Arterton's War War II drama SUMMERLAND has just added two acting legends Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay, and also Gugu Mbatha Raw who already starred with Penelope in Belle! I've previously already showed you a poster for the love story, in which Gemma plays fiercely independent writer Alice who secludes herself in her study: occupied by her work but also profoundly lonely, haunted by a love affair from her past. When spirited young Frank, an evacuee from the London Blitz, is dumped into her irritable care, his innocence and wonder awaken Alice�s

Gugu Mbata Raw and Penelope Wilton will star together again after Belle

deeply buried emotions. Bravely embracing life�s miraculous unpredictability, Alice learns that wounds may be healed, hope and second chances do exist, and any woman must defiantly be two things: who and what she wants.

  'HURRICANE' TRAILER

IS HERE WITH IWAN RHEON!

Speaking of WW2, I've also previously showed you an old poster for HURRICANE and now you can check out a new one alongside a new trailer

Hurricane is out in UK cinemas this September

too!  The movie has a rather British cast lead by Iwan Rheon, Sam Hoare and Stefanie Martini, alongside Mel's son Milo Gibson and Polish star Marcin Dorocinski. It is the story of a group of brave Poles who fought in the skies over England in WW2, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modern form for barely twenty years before it was crushed under Germans. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane and (with some initial reluctance) given RAF blue uniforms, while they fought, Poland lived.