Amazon orders The Last Tycoon to series
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon is one of the great unfinished novels of the 20th century, still incomplete when the Great Gatsby author died in 1940. For a while there, it was looking like a TV adaptation of Fitzgerald’s novel might meet a similar fate, with HBO passing on the show a couple of years ago, before Amazon picked it up as a potential entry in its nascent streaming empire. It’s been nearly two years since the online retail giant snarfled up Captain Phillips screenwriter Billy Ray’s pilot script and installed neatly pressed White Collar star Matt Bomer in the title role, but the show has finally been picked up to series today.