Aaron Sorkin is coming back to Broadway.

The award-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin - the man behind the recent Academy Award nominee Being The Ricardos - is taking on a new challenge at the heart of the theater world. The phenom is set to write a new adaptation of the classic and much beloved musical Camelot. Renditions of Camelot have been met with thunderous praise through the years; Julie Andrews is one of the many sensational actors known for making the show an the immovable stable of the classic musical theater catalog that it is.

According to an article on The Hollywood Reporter, Sorkin did not hesitate when agreeing to adapt this project. He shared:

"It was the fastest I've ever said yes to anything. The chance to work with Bart again, the chance to work on a musical, the chance to work at Lincoln Center and mostly the chance to work on material that I love were all impossible to resist."

This new version will have a very Sorkinian twist: this is not your grandma's Camelot. This rendition of the mellifluous fairy tale will not be set in the world of fantasy. Sorkin explained:

"The story takes place in a real place at a real time...Arthur can't change himself into a hawk and there's no magic forest. Even the origin story of the sword in the stone gets questioned.

"I like writing about heroes who don't wear capes and I told [director Bartlett Sher] that I thought there was a powerful version of this story to be told that could give us a glimpse - 'for one brief shining moment' - of who we could be at our best, but the story had to take place in the real world. Bart looked frightened but he told me to go to work."

We cannot wait see what comes of this radical adaptation of this classic piece.

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Aaron sorkin, Julie Andrews