Alliance Cinema Backs David Mamet’s ‘Speed The Plow’ & Lines Up Brazilian YA Adaptation ‘Diary Of A Weird Girl’
Alliance Cinema has become an equity financier of David Mamet’s forthcoming film Speed the Plow, strengthening backing for the playwright’s return to directing. Separately, the producer-financier has secured worldwide rights to adapt Brazilian young-adult novel Diary Of A Weird Girl into an international television series, expanding its development slate.
Speed the Plow is in post-production and stars Anthony Mackie, Ben Mendelsohn, Sharon Stone, Emily Alyn Lind, Chris Bauer and Rebecca Pidgeon; it adapts Mamet’s Broadway play but changes elements of its setting and story. Diary Of A Weird Girl follows 13-year-old Carol as she deals with crushes, school pressure, friendship problems, family separation and loneliness; Alliance is now choosing the creative team for the series.
In short
- Alliance Cinema finances Mamet’s Speed the Plow.
- The film is currently in post-production.
- Brazilian YA novel gains global TV adaptation plans.
Explained simply
Alliance Cinema is a film and television producer and financier, meaning it helps fund projects and develop them for the screen. David Mamet is an American playwright and filmmaker whose stage play Speed the Plow is being adapted into a film; the story has been changed in some ways for the screen.
Diary Of A Weird Girl is a Brazilian young-adult novel about Carol, a 13-year-old facing school, friendship and family difficulties. Alliance has acquired the rights to develop it as a television series, which would introduce the story to viewers beyond Brazil. Together, the projects show the company working on both a film based on an established play and an international adaptation of a contemporary novel.
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