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Amidst Cancer Treatment, Simon Marshall Teaming With Lesley Paterson To Adapt Viktor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ For Producer Kate Cohen
27.02.2024 - 20:21 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Kate Cohen (Jane Got a Gun) has tapped Oscar nominee Lesley Paterson (All Quiet on the Western Front) and Simon Marshall to script a feature adaptation of Viktor Frankl‘s classic treatise, Man’s Search for Meaning. For Paterson’s husband and writing partner, Marshall, the project has taken on particular resonance of late, having just been diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer.
Translated into 50 languages, with over 16 million copies sold, Frankl’s riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of unspeakable adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946. At the heart of his work is the conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but rather the pursuit of meaning.
Set to produce under her Straight Up Impact banner — alongside Frankl’s grandson, Alexander Vesley-Frankl (Viktor and I), who is a filmmaker in his own right — Cohen secured the rights to Man’s Search for Meaning many years ago and has been looking for the perfect writers for the project ever since. When she first connected with Paterson and Marshall, she knew they were the ones.
“There was something magical about them and I knew they understood the book with every fiber of their being,” Cohen said. “We had several meetings with Alexander Vesley-Frank and began developing the story, which was unusual for me to do before officially hiring a writer.”
After pitching the duo’s take to Cohen’s producer partner Tony Robbins, they were locked in. Marshall’s cancer diagnosis came the same day, and while he and Paterson were asked if they needed to step back from the
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