Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet will write and direct a new version of The Diary of Anne Frank for Disney. The 
studio acquired the movie rights and is backing Mamet up with producer Andrew Braunsberg.
Anne Frank is a tragic story told through the young girls diary about the two years her family hid in a secret attic in Amsterdam. Mamet plans to blend the well-known diary and the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich while inputting his own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl’s rite of passage.
The young Jewish girl died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She stood as the icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of her diary.
Braunsberg spent a year gathering the rights from the Anne Frank Estate as well as the estates of Hackett and Goodrich. A 1959 big screen rendition of Hackett and Goodrich’s “Diary of Anne Frank” earned an Oscar for Shelley Winters. The Frank story has been told several times on TV, most recently ABC’s 2001 Emmy-winning mini “Anne Frank: The Whole Story.”
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