Mamet's one of my favorite writers and directors. Plus he's always working on a wide range of stuff as the article will prove.
Before you get to the news, here's a list of my favorite and must see Mamet films:
Glenngary Glenn Ross
Spanish Prisoner
House of Games
Spartan
Ronin (Ghost writer for screenplay)
From chud.com:
There’s not a huge list of guys you wish would just do nothing but make 4 or 5 movies a year, but David Mamet is probably on there somewhere (or should be). His last flick, the short-sharp-shock thriller Spartan, made the 2004 top 15 lists of both Nick and myself, so naturally I get jazzed whenever his name gets associated with a new movie (even if half of them never seem to materialize – remember when he was going to direct Jude Law in a new version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?) – he’s someone who can never be prolific enough.
Anyway, he’s got a brand new book on his pile of planned projects, playwright Seth Greenland’s first book The Bones. The dark comedy follows a “bad boy” standup comic named Frank Bones, whose rowdy stage act ends up getting him blackballed. Rather than be trapped on a sitcom playing an Eskimo who rides a walrus, he calls in a marker from an old friend who has since become a hot Hollywood commodity. Strange and violent events occur shortly thereafter.
The project is set up at Columbia with Greenland adapting the book himself for Mamet, who previously took a few sardonic potshots at show biz with State and Main (and Wag the Dog, tangentially). Roles for Rebecca Pidgeon and Ricky Jay are expected. Mamet is also adapting James Jones' book Whistle, and he's working with Will Ferrell on the comedy Joan of Bark: The Dog That Saved France.
