Eddie Izzard feature eyes summer filming
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Eddie Izzard is preparing to film Six Minutes to Midnight, a feature film from Mad as Birds Films.
Set during the run-up to the Second World War, Izzard plays a teacher at an elite finishing school on the English coast who is framed for murder and accused of being a German spy.
The feature will shoot this summer, mainly on location in south Wales, with director Andy Goddard calling the shots from a screenplay he wrote with Izzard and Celyn Jones.
Mad as Birds Films has recently been in post on Keepers, a period feature starring Gerard Butler, who also produced. The story is inspired by a true-life mystery surrounding the disappearance in 1900 of three lighthouse keepers from the Flannan Isles off the coast of north-west Scotland.
Production Intelligence has more details on Six Minutes to Midnight including the shoot dates and key HoDs such as the line producer, DoP and production designer.
Photo via Getty Images Ent/Santiago Felipe.
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