A television adaptation of The Great Gatsby is in the works. A+E Studios and ITV Studios America are teaming with writer Michael Hirst (Vikings, The Tudors) to develop a single season dramatic event series based on F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel. A+E Studios and ITV Studios America will co-produce in association with Groundswell Productions.Hirst will write the pilot script and executive produce with Groundswell Productions’ Michael London (Sideways, Milk).The event series is described as a re-imagining of Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, which delves into New York’s African-American community of the time and the vibrant musical subculture developing in the 1920s.
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