Speaking of Over the Top...

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Is Headed to Broadway

By ALEXANDRA ALTER

The producer Scott Rudin has acquired stage adaptation rights for Harper Lee’s novel and has hired Aaron Sorkin to adapt the story.

They don't write 'em like that anymore.
They just don't write 'em like that anymore.

I hope he doesn't play Boo Radley as a superhero of sorts, and leaves the old-school Atticus character alone.
--------------------------
ADDED:  It's not sounding optimistic:

“‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is one of the most revered pieces of 20th century American literature,” Mr. Sorkin said in a telephone interview.

"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.”

 Along I come, eh?
That just sounds wickedly crude..