The Help News

EXCLUSIVE : Tate Taylor , who launched his writing and directing career by getting the option on The Help before author Kathryn Stockett was done writing it, has gotten himself on the ground floor of another sure-fire bestseller.

'It's one of those rare books with the ability to draw you in and make you live the story, minute by minute' Gone with the Wind is probably one of my most skimmed, most tattered and most read books.

Much is being said about the plight of today's school system, but, more needs to be said and done.

In 2009, a group of filmmakers descended on Greenwood, looking for potential locations for their adaptation of the bestselling novel "The Help." As they drove through the Mississippi town, they watched the homes and haunts of the book's characters spring up before them.