What could go wrong?
David Mamet, the once popular playwright and director, is coming back after 10 years.
He’s going to make a movie about the Chicago mob rubbing out President John F. Kennedy. It’s called “Assassination.” Here’s the description: “1963. During a crucial justice hearing against organized crime, the head of the Chicago mob orders the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Jr., creating a deadly conspiracy while altering the fate of a nation.”
The movie will star Al Pacino, John Travolta, Courtney Love, and Shia La Beouf. Also, Mamet’s wife, Rebecca Pidgeon. This is some group. It will be like herding cats.
No word whether Mamet has cast his actress daughter, Zosia.
In the decade since Mamet last worked on a film, he revealed himself to be ardently right wing. This shocked a lot of people, but also made the author of “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Speed the Plow,” as well as “State and Maine,” not quite as popular as before.
Mamet actually told The Guardian in 2022 that “Trump did a good job” as president, and that he didn’t disagree that the 2020 election was rigged.
How a Mamet film will be met now is certainly up in the air. But then again, Mel Gibson is directing a new movie, too, written by a Jewish screenwriter. All bets are off in Hollywood.
