In the 1926 page for F. Scott's Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger, now online, the famed writer lists that he sold the "Moving Picture" rights to The Great Gatsby for $16,666. Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of that book, due out next month, cost $104.5 million to make.
It is a fact, whether sad or happy, that when a book becomes a movie with a big star or two and a lot of press, that book generally gets a new cover. Such is the case for The Great Gatsby, and some people are sad about that.
Warner Brothers announced Monday that Baz Luhrmann's 3D version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been postponed from this December to summer 2013, bringing several more months of anticipating/fearing the very gaudy looking adaptation.
Today in books and publishing: India's diplomats have a penchant for poetry; the US and EU stall treaty for blind readers; Cloud Atlas sales get a big trailer bump; F. Scott Fitzgerald meditates on smoking.
Today in books and publishing: Joan Rivers dishes with the NYT; the book embroiled in a sexual harassment suit; a new player in e-books; authors say Harlequin owes them.
Horsemanship -- not bugs -- was a top worry for The Great Gatsby author, the 'Poe Toaster' once again failed to show ln Baltimore last night, and Salman Rushdie's panel at the Jaipur literary festival in India has been cancelled following "intense pressure" for him to withdraw.
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