David Mamet To Tell The Story Of Anne Frank...

Merrick here...
Playwright/filmmaker/author/producer/etc. David Mamet (who recently brought us REDBELT) is working on a new telling of Anne Frank's story Anne Frank's story.

Mamet will produce with Andrew Braunsberg. 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.

...says Variety IN THIS PIECE. There have been many interpretations of this wrenching tale (my personal preference being THIS ONE), but...to me, at least...the ideas driving this true story should be reinforced over and over again. Didn't happen all that long ago, and we still have a long way to go...