Netflix has acquired Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan’s script for Valley of Ashes, a modern, loose adaptation of The Great Gatsby set in San Francisco, Deadline wrote.
Although sources say that the film will focus on Silicon Valley, details about what the director wants to do are kept secret. Gagan will direct and produce the film through Super Emotional, the company he founded with Fox. Sources said Stephen had close ties to Netflix executives, who were stunned to hear his pitch and jumped at the opportunity to buy the project before it hit the market.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is a Jazz Age story set on Long Island. The story focuses on Nick Carraway, a bond salesman obsessed with his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire whose parties and displays of wealth are intended to rekindle his old passion.
The book has been adapted into many films over the years; the most famous of which is Warner Bros. Released in 2013, it was Baz Luhrmann’s stylized big-budget film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby. Previously, Jack Clayton directed Robert Redford in the 1974 Paramount film written by Francis Ford Coppola. An A&E TV movie was also released in 2000, and other versions aired in 1926 and 1949.
By the way, it was previously known that the box office failure of the movie “Battle After Battle”, in which she starred with Leonardo DiCaprio, would bring huge losses to Warner Bros.
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