After having Wag the Dog, Barry Levinson is now set to adapt and direct an independently-financed film version of his own novel Sixty Six.
The story is set in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of such historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam. It follows a staffer at a local television station and also features a diner as the center of social activity.
Levinson is also known for having done Liberty Heights; his most recent work is Polliwood, which is premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.
One of my favorite directors is heading back to his hometown to make his final feature of a series of film with a diner 
as the center of social activity. Barry Levinson is prolific writer-director. This time he will take his own novel “Sixty-Six,” a story about a group of characters coming of age in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of significant historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam.
Levinson will write the adaptation and direct the film.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the protagonist in “Sixty-Six” is a staffer at a local television station, whom some have noted is a stand-in for Levinson and his professional and personal life.
Sixty-Six completes the series of films in which Levinson contemplates the social dynamics in Baltimore at various periods throughout the 20th century. Beginning with 1983’s Diner set in a very different city of 1959, and covered similar subject matter in Avalon (1990), Tin Men (1987) and Liberty Heights (1999).
What Just Happened director Barry Levinson is set to direct an adaptation of Anatoly Kuznetsovs World War II book Babi Yar for Aurora Entertainment.
The book followed the authors account of witnessing mass executions of Jews, gypsies, Poles and prisoners of war during the German occupation of Kiev. Its title refers to a ravine where the executions took place.
The film is being funded by various Russian, Polish and Ukrainian investors and will be shot in the Ukraine and Romania with pre-production beginning this April.