David Mamet to direct "Redbelt" for Sony

By Karl Schneider     April 13, 2007
Source: Variety

According to Variety, David Mamet will direct the upcoming feature film, Redbelt, based on his own original screenplay.

The film, which will be fully financed by Sony Pictures Classics,  is an American samurai film set in an underworld inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops and special forces operatives.

Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men) will star in the film as a Jiu-Jitsu master who has eschewed prizefighting to operate 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.

The film is aiming for a summer 2008 release.