Editing To Kill a Mockingbird (section)

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=== 1962 film ===
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[[File:Pakulalee.gif|thumb|right|upright|alt=A black and white photograph of Alan J. Pakula seated next to Harper Lee in director's chairs watching the filming of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''|Film producer [[Alan J. Pakula]] with Lee; Lee spent three weeks watching the filming, then "took off when she realized everything would be fine without her"<ref name="belafonte">Bellafante, Ginia (January 20, 2006). [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/books/30lee.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day], ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on November 13, 2007.</ref>]]
The book was made into the well-received 1962 film [[To Kill a Mockingbird (film)|with the same title]], starring [[Gregory Peck]] as Atticus Finch. The film's producer, [[Alan J. Pakula]], remembered [[Universal Pictures]] executives questioning him about a potential script: "They said, 'What story do you plan to tell for the film?' I said, 'Have you read the book?' They said, 'Yes.' I said, 'That's the story.'"<ref name="nichols">Nichols, Peter (February 27, 1998). "Time Can't Kill 'Mockingbird' [Review]", ''[[The New York Times]]'', p. E.1</ref> The movie was a hit at the box office, quickly grossing more than $20&nbsp;million from a $2-million budget. It won three [[Academy Awards|Oscars]]: [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] for Gregory Peck, [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White]], and [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]] for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]] for [[Mary Badham]], the actress who played Scout.<ref>[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1206823317863 To Kill a Mockingbird (film)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304064922/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1206823317863 |date=2012-03-04 }} [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]. Retrieved on March 29, 2008.</ref> At the time, she was the youngest actress nominated in the category.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chilton|first1=Martin|title=Robert Duvall hails return of Harper Lee|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11388915/Robert-Duvall-hails-return-of-Harper-Lee.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11388915/Robert-Duvall-hails-return-of-Harper-Lee.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=4 February 2015|publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group Limited]]|location=London, England|access-date=13 July 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Lee was pleased with the film, "In that film the man and the part met&nbsp;... I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I've always refused. That film was a work of art".<ref name="joneshistory">Jones, Carolyn "Harper Lee", in ''The History of Southern Women's Literature'', Carolyn Perry (ed.): Louisiana State University Press (2002). {{ISBN|978-0-8071-2753-7}}</ref> Peck met Lee's father, the model for Atticus, before the filming. Lee's father died before the film's release. Lee was so impressed with Peck's performance that she gave him her father's [[pocket watch]], which he had with him the evening he was awarded the Oscar for Best Actor.<ref name="peckint">Bobbin, Jay (December 21, 1997). "Gregory Peck is Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird''", ''[[The Birmingham News]]'' (Alabama), p. 1.F</ref> Years later, he was reluctant to tell Lee that the watch was stolen out of his luggage in [[London Heathrow Airport]]. When Peck eventually did tell Lee, she told him, "Well, it's only a watch". He said, "Harper—she feels deeply, but she's not a sentimental person about things".<ref name="peck97">King, Susan (December 22, 1997). "How the Finch Stole Christmas; Q & A With Gregory Peck", ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', p. 1.</ref> Lee and Peck shared a friendship long after the movie was made. Peck's grandson was named "Harper" in her honor.<ref>King, Susan (October 18, 1999). "Q&A; Film Honors Peck, 'Perfectly Happy' in a Busy Retirement", ''Los Angeles Times'', p. 4.</ref>

In May 2005, Lee made an uncharacteristic appearance at the [[Los Angeles Public Library]] at the request of Peck's widow Veronique, who said of Lee:

<blockquote>She's like a national treasure. She's someone who has made a difference&nbsp;... with this book. The book is still as strong as it ever was, and so is the film. All the kids in the United States read this book and see the film in the seventh and eighth grades and write papers and essays. My husband used to get thousands and thousands of letters from teachers who would send them to him.<ref name="lapl">Lacher, Irene (May 21, 2005). "Harper Lee raises her low profile for a friend; The author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' shuns fanfare. But for the kin of Gregory Peck", ''Los Angeles Times'', p. E.1</ref></blockquote>

=== Plays ===
The book was first adapted as a play by Christopher Sergel. This adaptation debuted in 1990 in Monroeville, a town that labels itself "The Literary Capital of Alabama". The play runs every May on the county courthouse grounds and townspeople make up the cast. White male audience members are chosen at the intermission to make up the jury. During the courtroom scene, the production moves into the Monroe County Courthouse and the audience is racially segregated.<ref>Noble, pp. 4–5.</ref> Author [[Albert Murray (writer)|Albert Murray]] said of the relationship of the town to the novel (and the annual performance): "It becomes part of the town ritual, like the religious underpinning of [[Mardi Gras]]. With the whole town crowded around the actual courthouse, it's part of a central, civic education—what Monroeville aspires to be."<ref>Hoffman, Roy (August 9, 1998). "Long Lives the Mockingbird", ''The New York Times Book Review'', p.  31.</ref>

Sergel's play toured in the UK starting at the [[West Yorkshire Playhouse]] in [[Leeds]] in 2006,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird-west-yorkshire-leeds-playhouse--none-onestar-twostar-threestar-fourstar-fivestar-416775.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird-west-yorkshire-leeds-playhouse--none-onestar-twostar-threestar-fourstar-fivestar-416775.html |archive-date=June 21, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=To Kill A Mockingbird, West Yorkshire, Leeds Playhouse|last=Walker|first=Lynne|date=30 September 2006|access-date=17 April 2014|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> and again in 2011 starting at the [[York Theatre Royal]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird-theatre-royal-york-2222896.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/to-kill-a-mockingbird-theatre-royal-york-2222896.html |archive-date=June 21, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=To Kill a Mockingbird, Theatre Royal, York|last=Brown|first=Jonathan|date=23 February 2011|access-date=17 April 2014|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> both productions featuring [[Duncan Preston]] as Atticus Finch. The play also opened the 2013 season at [[Regent's Park Open Air Theatre]] in London where it played to full houses and starred [[Robert Sean Leonard]] as Atticus Finch, his first London appearance in 22 years. The production returned to the venue to close the 2014 season, prior to a UK tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://openairtheatre.com/blog/to-kill-a-mockingbird-returns/ |title=To Kill A Mockingbird Returns |website=openairtheatre.com |publisher=[[Open Air Theatre]] |access-date=May 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/robert-sean-leonard-on-to-kill-a-mockingbird-house-and-turning-down-tom-stoppard |title=Robert Sean Leonard on To Kill A Mockingbird, House and turning down Tom Stoppard |work=Timeout.com |first=Andrzej |last=Lukowski |date=29 June 2015 |access-date=20 August 2021 }}</ref>

According to a ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' article, the novel is so revered in Monroeville that people quote lines from it like Scripture; however, Harper Lee herself refused to attend any performances, because "she abhors anything that trades on the book's fame".<ref>Newman, Cathy (January 2006). [http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0601/feature8/?fs=www3.nationalgeographic.com&fs=plasma.nationalgeographic.com To Catch a Mockingbird] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117192609/http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0601/feature8/?fs=www3.nationalgeographic.com |date=2006-11-17 }}, ''National Geographic''. Retrieved on November 11, 2007.</ref> To underscore this sentiment, Lee demanded that a book of recipes named ''Calpurnia's Cookbook'' not be published and sold out of the Monroe County Heritage Museum.<ref>Robinson, David. [http://living.scotsman.com/features/The-one-and-only.2770816.jp The One and Only], ''The Scotsman''. Retrieved on March 29, 2008.</ref> David Lister in ''The Independent'' states that Lee's refusal to speak to reporters made them desire to interview her all the more, and her silence "makes [[Bob Dylan]] look like a media tart".<ref>Lister, David (July 10, 2010). [https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/david-lister/david-lister-those-reclusive-authors-really-know-how-to-live-2023180.html David Lister: Those reclusive authors really know how to live], ''The Independent''. Retrieved on July 10, 2010.</ref> Despite her discouragement, a rising number of tourists made Monroeville their destination, hoping to see Lee's inspiration for the book, or Lee herself. Local residents call them "Mockingbird groupies", and although Lee was not reclusive, she refused publicity and interviews with an emphatic "Hell, no!"<ref>Pressley, Sue (June 10, 1996). "Quiet Author, Home Town Attract 'Groupies,' Press; To Live With 'Mockingbird'", ''[[The Washington Post]]'' p. A3</ref>

In 2018, a [[To Kill a Mockingbird (2018 play)|new adaptation]] was written by [[Aaron Sorkin]], debuting on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Alter |first1=Alexandra |title=Harper Lee Estate Told to Pay $2.5 Million in Dispute Over 'Mockingbird' Plays |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/theater/harper-lee-to-kill-a-mockingbird.html |access-date=1 September 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 February 2022}}</ref> The Broadway production was nominated for nine [[Tony Awards]], winning one.<ref>{{cite web |title=To Kill a Mockingbird - Broadway Play - Original - Awards |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/to-kill-a-mockingbird-518644#Awards |website=ibdb.com |publisher=[[The Broadway League]] |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

=== Graphic novel ===
In October 2018, Fred Fordham adapted and illustrated the story as a graphic novel. Some of the longer descriptive and commentary passages have been left out - "the bits that children tend to skip anyway" as [[C. J. Lyons]] says in her review of the graphic novel in the New York Journal of Books<ref name="nyjb">{{cite web|url=https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/kill-mockingbird|title=To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel|author=[[C. J. Lyons]]|publisher=New York Journal of Books|accessdate=11 July 2022}}</ref>), who goes on to say "the heart of Lee's fictional 1933 Maycomb is faithfully recreated via the art and dialogue".<ref name="nyjb"/>

=== Television ===
In [[Daddicus Finch|a 2018 episode]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Lisa sees her dad as [[Atticus Finch]].