NBC developing modern-day gender-swapped Gatsby police procedural
Gatsby will follow detectives Jay Gatsby and Nicole "Nicky" Carraway.
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Well, it’s no God Cop, but we’re getting closer. Deadline reports this afternoon that NBC is developing a series based on The Great Gatsby, simply titled Gatsby, set in the modern day with a gender-swapped Nick Carroway. Also, they’re detectives. Now, you may be wondering what DNA this series will share with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel beyond one-and-a-half character names. We can’t answer that, though we’ll state the obvious fact that it seems far easier to get something greenlit in the current media ecosystem if it has some tie to IP. We imagine it’s even easier if that IP entered the public domain within the past few years.