Upcoming David Mamet Films
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
The project is set up at
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