Filed against the theater company of New York producer Scott Rudin, the complaint cites an interview with the online publication Vulture in which Sorkin was quoted as saying the small-town lawyer would evolve from a racist apologist at the start of the show to become "Atticus Finch by the end of the play."
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It also won't surprise you to know that Sorkin departs liberally from Bloom's own memoir to tell her story, relying on what he says were hundreds of hours of talking to his subject about things she never wrote about.