Judi Dench is in talks to join the thriller Six Minutes To Midnight, after Eddie Izzard was cast. Directed by Andy Goddard (Downton Abbey, Burning Stars), Izzard and Celyn Jones wrote the script, in which Izzard plays Thomas Miller, a literature and language teacher whose parents are British/German, who teaches courses for the German Women's League. As World War II looms, Miller is framed as a German spy and implicated in a murder after a conflict with the league's leaders and a loyal supporter of Hitler. Dench will play Rocholl, a strict headmistress who helps Miller on the run.