The Oscar-winning screenwriter is writing a new stage adaptation of the iconic novel for the 2017-2018 Broadway season.
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Rudin – who as a producer won Tony Awards last year for Best Play (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Best Revival of a Play (Skylight) – said he spent two years trying to get the rights before Lee, 89, finally accepted his offer. No casting was revealed.
Sorkin’s performs embrace “A Few Good Men” and “The Farnsworth Invention”. The version opened in 1991 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey and has been seen in regional theaters around the country.
The book has made the leap to the stage before, including a run at London’s Barbican Theatre in 2013.
Harper Lee and her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill A Mockingbird are once again in the news, this time for a Broadway-bound play.
To Kill A Mockingbird, published in 1960, introduced Atticus Finch, Scout, Boo Radley and other beloved literary characters.
The book did create a very popular movie in 1962 starring Gregory Peck, but this is the first time To Kill a Mockingbird will hit Broadway.
Rudin has already confirmed that Atticus Finch will be “the Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird”, rather than the racist bigot controversially presented in Lee’s Go Set a Watchman last summer.
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The announcement of “Mockingbird” on Broadway comes a year after the controversial publication of Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman”, a sort of prequel to the classic novel. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered orredistributed in any form. Doing so may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
