BY KATE FELDMAN New York Daily News
January 29, 2021
A TV version of “The Great Gatsby” has reportedly been … green lit.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel, which entered into the public domain this year, is being adapted into a miniseries by writer Michael Hirst (“Elizabeth,” “The Tudors”), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
But unlike other on-screen versions of the eponymous Jay Gatsby and the scandalous mysteries of West Egg, Hirst’s reimagined version, by A+E Studios and ITV Studios America, “will explore New York’s Black community in the 1920s as well as the musical subculture.”
“I have long dreamt of a more diverse, inclusive version of Gatsby that better reflects the America we live in, one that might allow us all to see ourselves in Scott’s wildly romantic text,” Blake Hazard, a great-granddaughter of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and a consulting producer on the project, said in a statement.
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The Hollywood Reporter, Hirst explained the relevance of the text for a 2021 audience, promising to deliver a more modern take on the subject matter: Today, as America seeks to reinvent itself once again, is the perfect moment to look with new eyes at this timeless story, to explore its famous and iconic characters through the modern lens of gender, race and sexual orientation, he said. Fitzgerald s profoundly romantic vision does not prevent him examining and exposing the darker underbelly of the American experience, which is why the story speaks to both tragedy and hope, and why it continues to resonate today.
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