Aaron Sorkin Brings 'To Kill A Mockingbird' To The Broadway Stage
After lawsuits and pushback from her estate. Harper Lee's beloved 1960 novel is now a play. And now, Atticus Finch looks and sounds a little different than he did in the book.
When Aaron Sorkin first sat down to write a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, it didn't go well.
"My first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was terrible," he says. "Really the best thing that you could say about it was that it was harmless — which is not something you want to say about a play."
This is the guy who made and and who wrote and . And here he was taking on a classic — one that deals with race, sexual violence, the failures of the legal system and one man who has to
