William Joyce has been set to direct an animated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 jazz age novel “The Great Gatsby” for DNEG Feature Animation.
The story has been adapted for the screen several times for film and television including movies in 1926, 1974, and 2013, though all have been met with mixed responses.
Brian Selznick, whose illustrated book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” became Martin Scorsese’s film “Hugo,” will pen the adaptation. Joyce, Michael Siegel and David Prescott produce.
The project’s announcement arrives just weeks after “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst was announced as writer and producer of a big-budget live-action series adaptation for A+E Studios and ITV with that version exploring New York’s Black community in the 1920s.
Source: Variety
