Caffeinated Clint
Now this has me excited…. (just a little bit more than a, ahem, LEGO movie).
The House of Mose has acquired picture rights to a new rendition of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” to be written and helmed by acclaimed playwright and all-round genius wordsmith David Mamet.
According to Variety, the film will be an amalgamation of the famed diary; the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; and Mamet’s own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl’s right of passage. Frank, who died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, became an icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of the diary that she kept during the two years that her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam.
Producer Andrew Braunsberg, best known for producing the classic Peter Sellers-starrer “Being There,” spent a year gathering the rights from the Anne Frank Estate as well as the estates of Hackett and Goodrich. He met with ICM’s John Burnham, who recommended Mamet. Mamet sparked to the opportunity tell the story, and he is already writing the script.
The Anne Frank story has been told on celluloid several times over – most notably in a 1959 bigscreen rendition of Hackett and Goodrich’s “Diary of Anne Frank”. Shelley Winters earned an Oscar Nomination for her performance in the film.
Mamet’s last film was the martial-arts romp “Redbeltâ€.
