Mamet On Anne Frank

Finally. A movie project that has nothing to do with a plastic toy (or plastic toys, or plushie stuffies or interlocking color pieces) from the 1970s and 80s. And written and directed by David Mamet, no less (can you imagine Mamet writing the Lego movie with Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy as interlocking piece red and interlocking piece blue? Wait a second...I can almost picture that).  

And please, no jokes about Miss Frank not getting the Glengarry leads. Sorry, I guess I just made that stupid joke.

From Variety:

"Disney has acquired pic rights to a new rendition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' to be written and helmed by David Mamet.

"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.

"Braunsberg, best known for producing '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."