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Last October, PBS announced that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was voted by viewers as "America's best-loved novel." But writer Aaron Sorkin told 60 Minutes that, when he began adapting the Southern classic for the Broadway stage, he wasn't afraid to tweak the cherished story.
"When you're adapting something, at some point you have to fall out of love with the book and make it something new," Sorkin said in an interview with correspondent Steve Kroft.
To begin with, Sorkin wanted a new protagonist. He said that, in the novel, Scout is the central character, the person whose point of view tells the story and whose perspective changes through the book. But for his stage adaptation, he wanted to make it clear that Atticus Finch plays that role. To do that, Atticus couldn't be the same from beginning to end; he needed an initial flaw.