Tim Allen Seriously Intends to Do a Martial Arts Movie

Trading in his leather jacket and Santa Suit for a set of hands registered as legal weapons, Tim Allen has signed on to star in the David Mamet martial arts action film, "Redbelt." Starring alongside the comedian is Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Variety offers up a brief plot summary:

Ejiofor, who was the first actor Mamet set (Daily Variety, April 13), stars as a Jiu-jitsu master whose purity is compromised when he is drawn into the movie business and manipulated into brawling in ultimate