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Chiwetel Ejiofor snags lead in new David Mamet actioner
Here’s one that’s posters are bound to be slapped across the walls of every dojo near and far. Acclaimed screenwriter/playwright David Mamet and Sony are teaming on a film set within the white walls and pine floors of the Jiu-Jitsu fighting world.
Set to start production in May in L.A., “Redbelt” is an American samurai film set in an underworld inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops and special forces operatives.
The film is the first major U.S role for Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Serenity”, “Kinky Boots”, “Children of Men”) and the one they’re tipping will turn him into the next Denzel. In the film, he’ll play a Jiu-Jitsu master who has eschewed prizefighting tooperate a self-defense studio. When he is conned by a cabal of movie stars and fight promoters, he must enter the ring to fightin order to regain his honor.
Think “Best of the Best” but with a script – a helluva script, I’m guessing.
