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From Entertainment Weekly online:

Sony on board for Mamet's Jiu-Jitsu movie

Sony Pictures Classics has agreed to finance and distribute David Mamet's Red Belt, a Jiu-Jitsu action movie set in a West Los Angeles underworld. Mamet will direct from his original screenplay. The movie will star Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men) as a Jiu-Jitsu master who has given up prizefighting but is then lured back into the ring to defend his honor after being conned by a group of movie stars and fight promoters. Additional casting is underway with frequent Mamet collaborator Ricky Jay mentioned as a strong possibility. Shooting is scheduled to start in May for a summer 2008 release. Sony Pictures Classics previously worked with Mamet for 1997's The Spanish Prisoner and 1999's The Winslow Boy.

Interesting. It sounds like it might be BJJ. I dunno. I thinik Mamet is most know for writing dialogue, so I wonder how this'll play out.

Mamet does great dialog an plot-- hell i'd watch a movie about basket weaving by Mamet --thanks forthe heads up

I tried to find mor einfo, but it looks like the movie is still VERY new. Chiwetel Ejiofor is the actor who potrayed the Operative in the sci-fi movie Serenity, where he used some differnt martial arts.

Thanks again Sean.