Posts Tagged ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald’

Casting Call: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night

This past week, the much-delayed 3D production of “The Great Gatsby” opened in theaters, which got us thinking about other great Fitzgerald adaptation opportunities. Our suggestion for one that would fare brilliantly on the big screen? The dramatic, evocative Tender is the Night. Here in Word & Film’s Casting Call, we dream up more than the possibility — we dream up the perfect cast for such a film.

Would Scott and Zelda Have Approved of Baz Luhrmann’s Bedazzled Version of ‘The Great Gatsby’?

‘It’s going to be a damned masterpiece, you know,’ said F. Scott Fitzgerald in Therese Anne Fowler’s meticulously researched novel about Zelda Fitzgerald.

5 Scenes Essential to The Great Gatsby’s Cannes 2013 Debut

This Cannes endorsement has inflated hopes that Luhrmann’s extravagant experiment with Gatsby will deliver the goods.

David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’ Returning to Television?

This Friday also means David Mamet’s soon-to-be-published play, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ladylike tendencies, and the return of the director of ‘The Green Hornet.’

Silly Hobbit: Smeagol Versus Gollum Rap Battle

Also closing out week one of 2013: Lindsay Lohan is already NSFW, looking ahead in Aurora, CO, and how to inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Cate Blanchett to Terrorize Cinderella in Film Update

Also in casting news, we have the announced cast of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere as well as Tarantino’s last-minute tweaks to ‘Django Unchanged’ and a look at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New Yorker-rejected (really) short story.

Anne Hathaway in Talks to Get Robotic in Adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse

Also in our roundup: Welcome to Great Gatsby: The Video Game (aka the most unproductive Wednesday ever); Angela Lansbury to room with Johnny Depp and Jude Law at Wes Anderson’s Great Budapest Motel; and Fifty Shades may very well be, well, a blast from the past.