Mar 25 2018
Harper Lee was a literary celebrity. Aaron Sorkin is a screenwriting superstar. And now the two - by proxy - are locked in a battle over who should shape the content in Mr. Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Ms. Lee's famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Ms. Lee, before she died, agreed to allow Mr. Sorkin to write the adaptation. But there was one key condition: His play could not "derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the novel, nor alter its characters."
And therein lies the problem. Ms. Lee is now dead, so it’s impossible to know what she would make of Mr. Sorkin’s script. But her longtime lawyer has read a draft, and is unhappy...
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