Reply #148: An interesting bit of trivia about Peck re: TKAM

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Looks as though if it wasn't for Gregory Peck's foresight, TKAM might have been a very different picture


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Excerpt from an interview with Horton Foote who won, for TKAM, an acadamy award for Best Screenplay Adaptation


http://www.wgaeast.org/features/guare-foote/

Conversation with Horton Foote and John Guare - Writers Guild of America, East

July 12, 2001

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On all these scripts, I was a writer for hire. And I learned fast that, if I really wanted to function as a writer, I’d better learn to find a way to get in there as a producer. I learned a very valuable lesson from To Kill a Mockingbird, which was my second screenplay. Gregory Peck, God bless him, had in his contract that Alan Pakula and Bob Mulligan had the final cut. Universal hated the film and was going to rip it apart, but thanks to that clause in Peck’s contract, the picture was saved….

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