A The Great Gatsby series set in 1920s black New York

For now, the project does not yet have a broadcaster, but the producers are already raising the stakes by promising a mini-series with a very big budget. A + E Studios has been at work on the project for several years, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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For a while, Apple was at the forefront of airing the miniseries, monitoring its development closely, but visibly gave up. As for Michael Hirst, he says he is literally obsessed with the novel. ” I feel like I’ve lived a good part of my life with Gatsby, ever since I read it as a student, then taught at Oxford in the 1970s, and have reread it regularly since. »

The editor’s summary for Gatsby the magnificent (transl. Jacques Tournier, Paperback):

We are in the aftermath of the Great War, the evil of the century invades souls. This is the era of Prohibition and quick fortunes. In 1922, Jay Gatz, now Gatsby, found himself fabulously rich. A thousand legends run on his account, which do not prevent chic and less chic people from flocking to drink his cocktails and dance on his lawns.

The Great Gatsby plays the crazy spending card to dazzle Daisy, married to Tom Buchanan, a millionaire heir. The day when the hope of conquering his beloved vanishes, the party comes to an abrupt end …

Michael Hirst intends to offer another approach to the work, with a fairly substantial rewriting: thus, the action of the novel will be transposed in the black community of New York, in the 1920s. To ensure historical and cultural respect two together, two big names have been appointed consultants, namely William B. Ransford, professor of English and comparative literature, and Farah Jasmine Griffin, specialist in African-American culture.

« I have long dreamed of a more diverse and inclusive version of Gatsby that better reflects the America we live in, one that could make us all recognize ourselves in Scott’s wildly romantic text. Says Blake Hazard, great-granddaughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

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For now, the mini-series therefore has no cast, date of release, or broadcaster.

Among the latest adaptations of Gatsby the magnificent, let us quote in particular the film of Baz Luhrmann, of 2013, with Leonardo DiCaprio.