'The Good Fight' script has been rewritten to be 'as current as possible' following the shocking result of the U.S. general election on November 8.
- December 29, 2016
AceShowbiz -
"The Good Fight" got a last minute rewrite. Executive producers Robert and Michelle King wants the show to be "as current as possible" so they quickly made adjustments to the script shortly after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton at the election.
"Like most pollsters, we thought Hillary Clinton would win the presidency, so we wrote scenes about Diane retiring from the law because she 'broke every glass ceiling,' " the Kings told EW. "Obviously we needed to rewrite - on the eighth day of shooting."
"The Good Wife" spin-off will now open with Christine Baranski's Diane Lockhart "stunned and shell-shocked" watching the presidential inauguration. "The show tends to be a satire of the liberal mindset," the producers explained. "So it felt funny and awful to play off of Diane's stunned reaction to the inauguration."
A year after the finale of the original show, an enormous financial scam destroys the reputation of young lawyer Maia and wipes out the savings of her mentor Diane. The two are forced out of Lockhart & Lee and join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's pre-eminent law firms. Cush Jumbo is cast as Lucca and Rose Leslie as Maia. The new series is set to premiere February 19, 2017 on CBS All Access.
