{"id":271886,"date":"2026-02-07T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271886\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:52:07","slug":"david-mamets-finally-making-his-film-version-of-film-satire-speed-the-plow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271886\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mamet’s finally making his film version of film satire Speed-The-Plow"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Mamet has been trying to get a movie version of his 1988 Tony-winner Speed-The-Plow\u00a0made for more than a decade at this point<\/a>\u2014even as, we can\u2019t help but notice, quite a few more current satires<\/a> of the film industry have gone successfully whizzing by. Now he\u2019s finally gotten the project (apparently) together, as Deadline\u00a0reports<\/a> that the writer and director has wrangled Anthony Mackie, Ben Mendelsohn, Sharon Stone, and Emily Alyn Lind to star in a new film version of the play, with Mamet himself as director.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be honest: It\u2019s going to be pretty odd to see how Mamet tries to update his original script\u2014centered on two film executives (Mackie and Mendelsohn) trying to find a blockbuster hit while also engaging in a bet about whether one of them can successfully sleep with his secretary (Alyn Lind)\u2014to reflect the nearly 40 years of cultural mutations that have gone down since. (To date this thing appropriately in your minds, just know that one of the big box office draws of the show\u2019s original Broadway run was the casting of Madonna in the secretary role.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although Mamet took a 17-year-long break from directing for the screen after the failure of his 2008 film\u00a0Redbelt, he returned last year with the lackluster\u00a0Henry Johnson<\/a>. As for his cast, Mackie, Mendelsohn, and Stone\u2014the latter playing a \u201ccrazed movie star\u201d not featured in the original play\u2014are obviously well known quantities at this point, while Alyn Lind has begun making a name for herself in recent years in projects like We Were Liars<\/a> and the Gossip Girl reboot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The real question, though, is just going to be whether\u00a0Speed-The-Plow\u00a0has anything particularly new to say about making movies in the 2020s. Mamet wasn\u2019t exactly charting virgin territory when he portrayed the film industry as a cynical and transactional cesspool back in the late Reagan years, so finding an angle that hasn\u2019t already been covered by its many, many\u00a0successors is likely to prove a daunting task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Mamet has been trying to get a movie version of his 1988 Tony-winner Speed-The-Plow\u00a0made for more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-271886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}