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What was the most challenging part of the adaptation?įalling out of love with the book. And that’s fine, but for the play I needed Atticus to be the primary protagonist. In the book and the movie, Atticus isn’t the protagonist. How could that be? How did Harper Lee get away with that in the novel and how did Horton Foote get away with that in the screenplay? Simple. Richard Thomas as “Atticus Finch.” In a significant departure from the Pulitzer-winning novel “To Kill A Mockingbird,” for his play, Aaron Sorkin decided to make Atticus the main protagonist.īut Atticus was the same guy at the end of the story as he was at the beginning. A protagonist has to be put through something and change. There were a number of problems but among the biggest was Atticus. It was like a greatest-hits album played by a tribute band. I’d swaddled the book in bubble wrap and tried to gently transfer it to a stage. How do you decide what to take out, what to leave in and where to differ from the source material? Take me through your process of taking this classic novel and turning it into a play. I think people come to the play hoping to connect with something from their childhood but end up connecting much more to the world they’re living in today. Why do you think this story resonates so well with so many people? Congratulations on writing the most profitable play in Broadway history, by the way.

No matter what I’m writing I tend to end up writing a play.

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Is there a different approach you take to writing a play than writing a TV or movie script? I grew up loving movies and television as much as anyone else, but with plays I was a student. I’m very lucky that I get to write movies and television series, but I feel most at home in a theater. You’ve said that what you love most is writing plays. Oscar and Emmy winner Aaron Sorkin, seen here in a 2020 file photo, recently told The Charlotte Observer what it took to translate “To Kill A Mockingbird” for the stage.

To kill a mockingbird characters jem and scout