To Kill A Mockingbird to hit Broadway
The fantastic GCSE Literature text which everyone wanted to study but somehow got stuck with Of Mice and Men, is set to become a Broadway production.
Scott Rudin, US film and theatre producer, is taking the new adaptation written by Aaron Sorkin to the Broadway stage after Harper Lee had a change of heart regarding the production.
Sorkin, who collaborated with Rudin on films such as The Social Network and Steve Jobs explained that it was unlikely his adaptation would please everyone.
"To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most revered pieces of 20th century American literature," he said. "It lives a little bit differently in everybody's imagination in the way a great novel ought to, and then along I come. I'm not the equal of Harper Lee. No one is."
Rudin has also revealed that Atticus will be portrayed as the original heroic character who warmed everyone's hearts in Mockingbird as opposed to the realised and controversial version in Lee's latest Go Set A Watchman, published last year.
Harper Lee's agent, Andrew Nurnberg, told the New York Times that: "While Nelle had always had misgivings about anyone who might want to bring To Kill a Mockingbird to Broadway - and there have been many approaches over the years - she finally decided that Scott would be the right person to embrace this."
There hasn't been a confirmed date for the production as of yet, but we are certain that this version of Mockingbird will kill it on Broadway - And I mean kill it in a positive way (I was trying to go for a pun...).