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Article: Allen fastens Mamet 'Belt'.(Tim Allen to star in movie "Redbelt" written and directed by David Mamet)(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- May 15, 2007
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Tim Allen will star in "Redbelt," the mixed martial arts drama David Mamet wrote and will direct for Sony Pictures Classics. Production starts next month in L.A.
Chiwetel Ejiofor co-stars with Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga, Joe Mantegna, Rodrigo Santoro, Ricky Jay, David Paymer, Rebecca Pidgeon and Jose Pablo Cantillo.
Ejiofor, who was the first actor Mamet set (Daily Variety, April 13, 2007), stars as a Jiu-jitsu master whose purity is compromised when he is drawn into the movie business and manipulated into brawling in ultimate fighting matches.
Allen plays a troubled action star with marital problems who meets the master when he is getting ...