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Tom Everett Scott will play the man arrested and tried in 1925 for teaching the theory of evolution in MGM TV's adaptation of "Inherit the Wind."

Starring Jack Lemmon in the role modeled on Clarence Darrow and George C. Scott as the William Jennings Bryan character, "Inherit the Wind," based on the real-life Scopes Monkey Trial, is shooting in Los Angeles under the direction of Daniel Petrie Sr. from a script by Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith. Douglas and Smith wrote the most famous adaptation of the original play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee, the 1960 movie starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

Keith Addis and David Seltzer are executive producers of the new version. Showtime and NBC will share the exhibition window of the movie.

Scott Bankston at Propaganda Management and CAA represent Tom Everett Scott.