Disney has acquired pic rights to a new rendition of The Diary of Anne Frank,” to be written and helmed by David Mamet. —Variety, yesterday
What we imagine to be the trailer:
INTERIOR, A (SURPRISINGLY SPACIOUS) DUTCH ATTIC. DAY.
ANNE:
The thing is…
OTTO:
Yeah?
ANNE:
It’s that…
OTTO:
What?
ANNE:
It’s that I still believe…
OTTO:
Great.
ANNE:
I still believe, in spite of everything…
OTTO:
There’s a lot of shit out there.
ANNE:
There is. But I still believe.
OTTO:
I know, you believe.
ANNE:
No, what I’m saying is…
OTTO:
What the hell are you saying?
ANNE:
I’m saying that I still believe, in spite of everything…
OTTO:
Yeah?
ANNE:
That people are truly good at heart.
OTTO:
Oh yeah?
ANNE:
Yeah.
OTTO:
Fucking fool.
Mamet Takes on ‘Anne Frank’ [Variety]
Related: Anne Frank’s Diary, As Interpreted by David Mamet [Vulture]
Jesse Oxfeld, a former executive editor and publisher of Tablet Magazine, is a freelance theater critic. He was The New York Observer’s theater critic from 2009 to 2014.