Harper Lee will publish a second novel

[cranberry]

This should be good. She's had a long time to work on it.

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BREAKING: 'To Kill A Mockingbird' author Harper Lee to publish second novel this summer.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Is Truman Capote ghostwriting it?

 

[cranberry]

Then...

Now...

 

[Boom_70]

She looks like Woody Hayes

 

[cranberry]

Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird | Books | The Guardian

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is to publish her second novel, Go Set a Watchman this summer, a work which the reclusive writer had believed lost for decades, and in which her beloved character Scout will be seen as an adult.

The shock news will delight the 88-year-old’s millions of fans, who have waited for a second novel from Lee since 1960, when she released her debut, To Kill a Mockingbird, the tale of racism in the American south which has captivated readers ever since.

Lee said in an announcement from her publisher, Penguin Random House, that she completed Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s, but set it aside after the publication of her debut and never returned to it. “It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman and I thought it a pretty decent effort,” said the reclusive writer. “My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout’s childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout. I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told.”

 

[93Devil]

It's going to be about a pair of men who murdered a family in the mid west.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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[Starman]

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So who are they gonna cast in the movie?

You need a tough actress with a semi-mannish look to play the 30s/40ish Scout, a kind of everyman-nebbish slightly older man to play Jem, a fussbudgety guy to play Dill, and a distinguished/legendary actor in his 70s/80s for Atticus. (Clint? Redford??)

One pick is a slam-dunk; Robert Duvall reprises Boo Radley.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Sandra Bullock as Scout
Kevin Spacey as Jem
Joaquin Phoenix as Dill

Gene Hackman would be great as Atticus, but he's apparently retired.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Lena Dunham as Scout.

 

[93Devil]

Burris Ewell

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

So who are they gonna cast in the movie?
One pick is a slam-dunk; Robert Duvall reprises Boo Radley.

He is the lone actor still alive who played an adult character in the movie.

The Internets seem to be abuzz today. I just hope the book lives up to the hype. We read TKAM earlier this year in my sophomore English classes, so I will be interested to share this with them.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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[Buck]

So who are they gonna cast in the movie?

You need a tough actress with a semi-mannish look to play the 30s/40ish Scout, a kind of everyman-nebbish slightly older man to play Jem, a fussbudgety guy to play Dill, and a distinguished/legendary actor in his 70s/80s for Atticus. (Clint? Redford??)

One pick is a slam-dunk; Robert Duvall reprises Boo Radley.

Why does the adult Scout have to be semi-mannish looking?

 

[Starman]

Why does the adult Scout have to be semi-mannish looking?

1. Because I say so;

2. Because frankly if they cast some really steamy sexy babe as the adult Scout, it will be distracting to the storyline.

Bullock would be a semi-logical pick, but she's already played the 'adult Scout' in 'Infamous,' in which she played Harper Lee herself.

 

[Buck]

1. Because I say so;

2. Because frankly if they cast some really steamy sexy babe as the adult Scout, it will be distracting to the storyline.

Bullock would be a semi-logical pick, but she's already played the 'adult Scout' in 'Infamous,' in which she played Harper Lee herself.

I don't it should be somebody steamy/sexy. Scarlett johansson, as an example. She's the wrong age for the role, but she's an example of someone who's sexuality pours off the screen in a way that would probably be wrong for the adult Scout.

But I don't think Scout has to be mannish.
Anne Hathaway, for example, still to young, very attractive, very feminine but I good type for Scout.

 

[Starman]

I don't it should be somebody steamy/sexy. Scarlett johansson, as an example. She's the wrong age for the role, but she's an example of someone who's sexuality pours off the screen in a way that would probably be wrong for the adult Scout.

But I don't think Scout has to be mannish.
Anne Hathaway, for example, still to young, very attractive, very feminine but I good type for Scout.

Yep. Hathaway would be good.

 

[Buck]

I don't think of Bullock as being the least bit mannish, but she would be a good type, too.

I agree though that her previous connection with Harper Lee as a character would be a bit distracting for me.
Of course, I don't know how many people saw that movie.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Mannish?

The search is over.

 

[Vombatus]

Mannish?

The search is over.

Jesus, I suddenly want to chew my arm off.