The upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — with a buzzy creative team that includes writer Aaron Sorkin and star Jeff Daniels — has been hit with a lawsuit by the estate of Harper Lee, the late writer who penned the 1960 novel.
The suit, filed in federal court in Alabama on Tuesday, centers on what the estate sees as the stage adaptation’s deviations from the source material, particularly in depicting the attitudes of Atticus Finch, one of the story’s main characters. In Sorkin’s version — in which Daniels will play Finch in a staging produced by Scott Rudin and Lincoln Center Theater — the character’s views about race shift over the course of the story, whereas the novel portrays him from the beginning as a crusader against racism.
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