 In the novel "Shoeless Joe", Ray Kinsella seeks out J. D. Salinger, although in the film this character was renamed Terence Mann (and was changed to a black man by the casting of James Earl Jones) as the movie producers were worried over being sued by Salinger.The producers believed that it was not significant to jettison Salinger, as they figured only 15% of the potential audience would know who the author was.Kinsella told Maclean's Magazine in a 2010 interview on the death of Salinger that many of the book's readers believe that Salinger is a wholly fictional character.