David Mamet's Anne Frank movie on hold

The Wrap is reporting that the Anne Frank movie we told you about is in turnaround. Apparently David Mamet's script was so Pro-Isreal, so dark, that when it got to Disney, they reject it and put the movie on hold.

I'm have a little bit of mixed feelings about this. If it is true and the script was very Pro-Isreal, that's not right, because that should become apparent through Anne Franks's diary entries. I also think it SHOULD be dark, it SHOULD be intense. That was a very dark time in the world's history, no one should make light of it. I don't think Disney was the proper venue for this type of movie anyway. They like the cookie-cutter family films, not dark dramas as intense as The Diary of Anne Frank. So we'll have to wait until Disney sells off the rights and another studio makes the film.

David Mamet writing "The Diary of Anne Frank" movie

Variety is reporting Disney Pictures has purchased the rights to a David Mamet version of "The Diary of Anne Frank". This version of the book with feature Anne Frank's coming of age during the Holocaust. Mamet is amazing to those of you who don't know him.

Mamet is responsible for such great work as The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ronin, Hannibal, Heist, and "The Unit" television series (my brother starred in an episode by the way). Not a bad list huh? Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize winner too! The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition.

His adaptation of this book could be something for the ages. Hope it works out as I imagine it!