Director, author, playwright, essayist, and producer, David Mamet, will write and direct a new version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” for Disney.

Variety reports that Mamet, with Andrew Braunsberg, will produce.

The film will be Mamet’s take on the diary itself combined with elements from the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.

Anne Frank died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and became an icon of the Holocaust when the diary she kept while hiding in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam for two years was published following the end of World War II.

Braunsberg spent the larger part of a year gathering the rights from the Anne Frank Estate as well as the estates of Hackett and Goodrich.

Mamet won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his play, “Glengarry Glen Ross” and is also famous for his many screenplays and directing credits.