Harper Lee's iconic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is coming to Broadway with Aaron Sorkin as the writer and Scott Rudin as the producer.
The production is slated to premiere during the 2017-18 season, and the play will be directed by Bartlett Sher, whose credits include this season's "The King and I" and "Fiddler on the Roof." Sher also has a Tony Award under his belt for the 2008 musical "South Pacific."
"To Kill a Mockingbird" follows the story of Atticus Finch, who puts his life on the line for an African-American man wrongly accused of raping a white woman, according to TheWrap.
"Mockingbird" is "one of the most revered pieces of 20th century American literature," Sorkin said, The New York Times reported. "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."
Last year, Lee released a pseudo-novel titled "Go Set a Watchman," which is set 20 years after the events of "To Kill a Mockingbird." The book sold more than 1.1 million copies in its first week and made history by becoming the fastest selling for publisher HarperCollins, as HNGN previously reported.
The 1962 Oscar-winning film adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" featured Gregory Peck in the lead role alongside Mary Badham and Robert Duvall, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
This isn't the first time that Sorkin and Rudin have teamed up. The duo previously collaborated on "The Social Network" and Oscar-contender "Steve Jobs."
