![]() Sorkin, the screenwriter of The Social Network and Steve Jobs, wrote in New York magazine that he had been asked by Rudin “what items on Carter’s list of objections I was willing to alter to her satisfaction”. According to the paper, a new character – a black doctor who would have testified at the rape trial – was dropped from the play because the estate had said that he “introduces numerous highly charged political issues into the trial”. The report added that Carter had objected to “about 80” elements in the script, with “about 40% of those elements now gone”. Sorkin’s play centres on the trial of Tom Robinson, while the story’s black characters – Robinson and the Finch family’s housekeeper Calpurnia – “express anger and frustration” beyond anything seen in the novel, with Robinson telling Finch in one scene: “I was guilty as soon as I was accused.” The New York Times reported that previews revealed it contained “dramatic changes” to the novel. Rudin’s company Rudinplay subsequently countersued and both parties settled amicably in May, allowing the play to proceed. The suit filed by Tonja Carter, who had been Lee’s lawyer, said that “for this classic, it is really important that any spin put on the characters, not least Atticus, does not contradict the author’s image of them”, adding that the small-town lawyer who defends a black man wrongly accused of rape “is portrayed in the novel as a model of wisdom, integrity, and professionalism”.Īccording to documents released at the time by producer Scott Rudin’s office, in one letter Carter complained that Sorkin’s Atticus “is more like an edgy sitcom dad in the 21st century than the iconic Atticus of the novel”. In March, a lawsuit from the late author’s estate had claimed that the script, which was written by Aaron Sorkin, departed from the spirit of the novel, in particular around the character of Atticus. ![]()
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