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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


'Man's Search for Meaning' is getting the feature treatment courtesy of screenwriters Lesley Paterson and Simon Marshall.

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. 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. Cohen, Robbins and Vesely-Frankl will be joined as producers on the narrative feature adaptation of Man’s Search for Meaning by Marisa Polvino, with Pam Roy and Mike Walsh on board as EPs.

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