Scott Rudin’s production company Rudinplay has countersued the estate of Harper Lee and its representative Tonja Carter in a New York Federal Court, as part of their response to the lawsuit filed against Rudin in March in an Alabama Federal Court looking for a judgment that the planned Broadway adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird departs from the spirit of the novel and alters two its characters, in violation of the license. Rudin’s lawsuit seeks to move the jurisdiction to New York, whose law governs the licensing contract, and asks for “an expedited determination” that the play does not violate […]