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    Tim Allen tops Mamet's 'Redbelt'

    Forget Cung Le's new MMA movie. Tim Allen!

    Tim Allen tops Mamet's 'Redbelt'
    Ejiofor co-stars in Sony's martial arts drama
    By MICHAEL FLEMING

    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.

    Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga, Joe Mantegna, Rodrigo Santoro, Ricky Jay, David Paymer, Rebecca Pidgeon and Jose Pablo Cantillo will star, along with martial artists and fighters Randy Couture, John Machado, Danny Inosanto, Enson Inoue and Ray Mancini.

    Ejiofor, who was the first actor Mamet set (Daily Variety, April 13), 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 pummeled in a street fight.

    Ejiofor has been training in London with members of the Gracie family, the renowned Brazilian fighting clan.

    For Allen, the film marks a break from his usual comic and family fare. Allen last starred in "Wild Hogs" and is negotiating to reprise his role in a sequel, and was at the center of a Disney pitch deal for "Yosemite Three."

    "Redbelt" is being fully financed and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics; Chrisann Verges is producing.
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    As if it couldn't get any worse.

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    Mamet does MMA

    David Mamet has written a film about mma it seems

    http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1
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    Actually, the idea of Tim Allen in a non-hokey-family fun for all ages! Movie somewhat intrigues me... who knows how it will turn out?
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    Didn't he already do this movie with Belushi?
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    Hollywood does love to make it clear that they view MA as nothing but a joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick Forrer View Post
    David Mamet has written a film about mma it seems

    http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1
    ok, let me get this straight: Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, the Verdict...Redbelt?!?!

    I am dismayed...

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    Money makes slaves of us all.

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    all about the long green

    If money makes slaves of us all,
    and MMA makes money,
    then MMA....

    I'm wondering if Allen's MMA movie character will be the next Rex Kwon Do.
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    I can imagine the dialogue:

    Allen: I need the moves. I need them now. Or I'm gone, and you're going to miss me, I swear to you.
    Mantegna: Look...
    Allen: ...you talk to them...
    Mantegna: I have. And my job is to teach you the moves...
    Allen: Teach the moves...teach the moves? What the fu(k, what bus did you get off of, we're here to fu(king fight. Fu(k teaching the moves. What the fu(k talk is that? What the fu(k talk is that? Where did you learn that? In a McDojo?


    and so it goes...

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    Mamet's new movie.......RED BELT

    Hollywood has now jumped on the bandwagon............again.


    http://imdb.com/title/tt1012804/



    Maybe Knifefighter will be an extra.





    (mods, I realize now this should be in the media section. My bad.)
    Last edited by banditshaw; 05-23-2007 at 09:22 PM.

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    So, does anyone know what tim Allen's MMA record is?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing View Post
    If money makes slaves of us all,
    and MMA makes money,
    then MMA....
    Prostitution makes money

    so we must be slaves of........

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    Less than two months and counting...

    I'll probably move this down to the media forum soon. There's a few MMA movies coming out that we've been following down there.

    Chiwetel Ejiofor Does Martial Arts In 'Redbelt'
    Posted Feb 26th 2008 12:35AM by Wilson Morales

    Having just won an Independent Spirit Award for his supporting role in 'Talk To Me', Chiwetel Ejiofor's next film will have him in a leading role as he stars in David Mamet's Redbelt.

    Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is the chief instructor at the Southside Jiu-Jitsu Academy. Although a talented fighter, he refuses to compete in professional bouts: "Competition weakens the fighter." Instead he trains dedicated students in the art of self-defense: bodyguards, cops, soliders. At his brother-in-law's club one evening, Mike saves a famous action star, Chet Frank, (Tim Allen) from a severe beating. His defense of Frank leads to a job in the film industry, but other events conspire to force Mike to participate in a prize fight. An American samurai film set in the world of mixed martial arts, David Mamet's "Redbelt" is a story about the limits of a single man's integrity.

    Opening up on April 25, the film also features Alice Braga, Tim Allen, Emily Mortimer, Rodrigo Santoro, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Randy Couture.
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