Tim Allen in Mamets martial arts drama

Posted on May 16, 2007
Filed Under Actors, Directors, News

Today I’m gonna bring you some roundhouse-dropkick news. Dark Horizons reports that Tim Allen has joined the large ensemble cast of “Redbelt,” the mixed martial arts drama David Mamet wrote and will direct.

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.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays 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. Shooting begins next month in L.A.

Hey, could be great. Don’t know about Tim Allen but Mamet usually delivers the good stuff.

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