Los Angeles: A limited series adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless novel “The Great Gatsby” is in development from “Vikings” writer Michael Hirst.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a network is not yet involved as the co-producers plan on selling the series to premium cable and streaming outlets.
The project will be produced by A+E Studios and ITV Studios America in association with Groundswell Productions.
It will be a reimagining of Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel which will explore into New York’s African American community and musical subculture of the 1920s.
Hirst, who will pen the script and executive produce the series, said as America seeks to reinvent itself once again, it 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”.
“Fitzgerald’s profoundly romantic vision does not prevent him examining and exposing the darker underbelly…