Disney to Make New Film on THE DIARY OF ANN FRANK

Disney has picked up the rights to develop a new film based on The Diary of Anne Frank, and they have brought in David Mamet to write and produce the feature film. Mament a Pulitzer Prize winner and has written several great films such as The Untouchables, Hoffa, Wag the Dog, Ronin, Hannibal, and Redbelt. The guy is more than qualified to take on a project like this. Variety reports:

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 rite 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.

There have been a few Anne Frank film and TV project made throughout the years, but this may end up being the definitive film version. With Disney behind it, you know they are going to go all out to bring this story to life.

Source: Variety