A few years have passed since David Mamet‘s lackluster HBO flick “Phil Spector” starring a massively wigged Al Pacino, and things have been pretty quiet on the film front from the acclaimed writer/director/playwright. At one point, he was linked to “Blackbird,” a slightly bonkers-sounding movie about a Hollywood makeup artist who might’ve been linked to the JFK assassination, and while it had Cate Blanchett attached, it never got off the ground. But the filmmaker now has a new project, one he’s intimately knowledgeable of — his own play, “Speed-The-Plow.”
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Mamet will bring his Tony-nominated Broadway production to the big screen, taking over for the previously attached Michael Polish (“Northfork,” “Big Sur“). The story revolves around the triangle that forms between Bobby Gould, a studio chief who needs a hit; Charlie Fox, who gives Bobby a project that could seal the deal and bring over a star from the competition; and Karen, a temp secretary both men battle over, but who has ambitions of her own. Basically, it sounds like the morally murky Mamet we’ve come to know.
No word yet on the cast, but if you have a trio in mind who think would make this material sing, let us know in the comments section. [Deadline]