Lawsuits all the way down: the bizarre afterlife of To Kill a Mockingbird continues
According to reporting by Alexandra Alter and Michael Paulson for The New York Times, dozens of community theater productions of Christopher Sergel’s 1990 stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill… Read more »
Go Sue a Watchman: Scott Rudin files countersuit against the estate of Harper Lee
Michael Paulson and Alexandra Alter have reported for the New York Times that Rudinplay, the stage production company of reported misanthrope/racist Scott Rudin, is filing a federal countersuit against the estate… Read more »
To Buzzkill a Mockingbird: The Harper Lee estate sues over Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of a beloved novel
Mere weeks ago, we wrote about how “the long, weird, and sometimes controversial life of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird” would march on in the form of a Broadway play. We should… Read more »
Jeff Daniels will walk and talk in Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird
The long, weird, and sometimes controversial life of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird marches on. The newest bend in the road reveals a star-powered Broadway adaption, produced by Scott Rudin,… Read more »
Harper Lee’s will is now as mysterious as her second novel
Last year’s publication of Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s mega-bestselling “second novel” (do what you will those quotation marks!), was the big publishing story of 2015. MobyLives covered it… Read more »
Scratch The Corrections—Jonathan Franzen’s Purity to be adapted for TV
Only five months after Purity was published, Jonathan Franzen may reignite the vitriol of his critics by collaborating on a major television adaptation of his widely praised and widely maligned… Read more »
Play it if it pays: Joan Didion documentary crowdfunded on Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a powerful website, and its awesome crowdfunding power has, on occasion, been deployed toward some pretty odd ends. But for every Missy Elliott-themed tracksuit and Ron Paul-themed video game… Read more »
Jane Campion may direct a film adaptation of ‘The Flamethrowers’
In a recent interview with Andrew Pulver for the Guardian, Jane Campion admitted “to being on the verge of closing a deal to shoot an adaptation of Rachel Kushner’s underground art scene novel… Read more »
Scott Rudin buys film rights to a book before the book rights are sold
Scott Rudin continues to buy film rights to all of the books, even when they aren’t books yet. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Rudin has bought film rights to… Read more »