# If TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD were just now being adapted to a movie today, how would they screw it up? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-to-kill-a-mockingbird-were-just-now-being-adapted-to-a-movie-today-how-would-they-screw-it-up/576545 "2011-03-30T19:19:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-to-kill-a-mockingbird-were-just-now-being-adapted-to-a-movie-today-how-would-they-screw-it-up/576545/61 "2011-03-31T18:52:16Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > As Atticus walks out of the courtroom, instead of saying, “Jean Louise. Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passing,” Rev. Sykes would start a “slow clap.” > > Oh, and Scout would be played by Miley Cyrus! And Rev. Sykes, in a gender bender, could be played by Wanda Sykes! And the whole thing could be produced by Tyler Perry. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-to-kill-a-mockingbird-were-just-now-being-adapted-to-a-movie-today-how-would-they-screw-it-up/576545/62 "2011-03-31T18:53:13Z")
MOCKIN’ DAH BIRD Set on a bleak, grimy concrete South London housing estate. Scaht is a sassy mixed-race kid who raps the narrative. Dillon is a shy black boy who secretly loves Scaht but is intimidated by her street smarts - but that boah can dance well nang. Boh Raddler is a lovable Jamaican rogue who can’t keep off the Red Stripe for more than a minute - with hilarious outcomes! Scaht’s absentee father, Finchman, occasionally turns up to dispense pearls of wisdom that Scaht incorporates into her hip hop stylin’s. The final scene is at the magistrate’s court where dah Finchman get accused of fiddlin his dole and just when it looks like him goin to get bang up, Scaht rap so well the magistrate let em off just so she can hear more of the beat. Oh and there’s sometin about some Bangladeshi bloke Tamanna Rahandra who got accused of rapin some bird or some shit but everyone knows she was well askin for it. That why it’s called mockin’ innit. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-to-kill-a-mockingbird-were-just-now-being-adapted-to-a-movie-today-how-would-they-screw-it-up/576545/63 "2011-03-31T20:04:19Z")
This morning at 11:30 am Dennis Miller joked about a desire to remake To Kill a Mockingbird using CGI… It leads me to wonder if he reads here. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-to-kill-a-mockingbird-were-just-now-being-adapted-to-a-movie-today-how-would-they-screw-it-up/576545/64 "2011-03-31T20:37:57Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Imagine, if you will, that for whatever reason, no cinematic or television adaptation of Harper Lee’s great work had ever been made, or even greenlighted. Imagine further that someone has recently acquired the rights to the story of Atticus Finch; filming began, say, a month ago, and the movie’s scheduled for a December 2011 release. It’s a major, big-studio release, with name actors in every significant role. > > Would you expect the movie to be fucked up? If yes, what do you expect would be done badly? They’d reverse the races of all characters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-to-kill-a-mockingbird-were-just-now-being-adapted-to-a-movie-today-how-would-they-screw-it-up/576545.md?page=3)