"To Kill A Mockingbird" to Broadway for 2017/18 season
"To Kill A Mockingbird" to Broadway for 2017/18 season
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1"To Kill A Mockingbird" to Broadway for 2017/18 season
Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:07am
Aaron Sorkin will write the adaptation for the theatre.
Scott Rudin will produce the play; no casting decisions to-date.
#2"To Kill a Mockingbird" to Broadway for 2017/18 season
Posted: 2/10/16 at 9:53am
I am so excited for this! One of the best novels and one of the few book to movie adaptations that actually works great! Can't wait to see who they cast!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#3Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:09am
Be still my heart. My favorite novel of all time.
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#4Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:10am
I wonder how faithful to the source material this will be. Sorkin does love to "alter" things, so it will be interesting with something that is well known, to see what he does. I don't really care for him, but I think this could be a great production for Broadway.
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#6Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:14am
Not to mention Bart Sher is slated to direct! I loved his work with Golden Boy, so I'll be very excited to see the vision he brings to Mockingbird.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#8Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:22am
shows booking theaters a 1-2 years in advance is also saying something these days. Producers want to make sure their show(s) are landing on Broadway when they want them.
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Broadway Star Joined: 1/24/16
#10Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:39am
Liev Schreiber should play Atticus.
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#12Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:41am
Bryan Cranston?
Jon Hamm?
Lin-Manuel Miranda?!
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#13Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:42am
Boyd Gaines.
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#15Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:52am
Couldn't get any female creative forces for Harper Lee's book?
#16Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:59am
Gaines and Cranston are too old.
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neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#17Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 11:23am
Scarywarhol said: "Couldn't get any female creative forces for Harper Lee's book?"
Preach.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#18Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 11:59am
dramamama611 said: "Be still my heart. My favorite novel of all time.
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Me too. I can't tell you how many times I have read it (and still find something new to value each time)
ViniFromBrazil
Stand-by Joined: 1/26/16
#19Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 12:26pm
Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudrup or Robert Sean Leonard as Atticus Finch!!!
To Kill a Mockinbird is not a popular book in Brazil but the movie is constantly on our Brazilian TCM Channel. A fun fact is that here in Brazil the movie title was translated as "O Sol é Para Todos" = "The Sun is for Everybody". Sweet.
Updated On: 2/10/16 at 12:26 PM
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#20Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 12:31pm
Of course, I assume Atticus will be changed from a lawyer to a male-writer who is SOO smart and funny and no one understands how smart and funny he is so he is the REAL person suffering here and presumably their mother will not have died, but will have been a woman who simply didn't have the high morals of Atticus.
#22Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 12:57pm
Attiucs is the father of two little kids. He shouldn't be in his 60s. Gregory Peck was 44 when the movie was released.
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RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#23Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 1:00pm
I hope there are plenty of long hallway scenes with quick banter.
And I hope he says something like "Like killing a ... mockingbird!" and there is a big flown in mockingbird.
Updated On: 2/10/16 at 01:00 PM
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#25Mockingbird
Posted: 2/10/16 at 1:02pm
Mandy Patinkin or Hugh Jackman or Liev Schreiber would be my choices.
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