“Picture this: Kermit in 1920s dress, playing the mysterious host to a huge party in West Egg,” dreamed The Verge website. Surely is sitting on a cloud somewhere, with a lovely grin and those sea-green eyes flashing, and laughing about all the Gatsby-generated gazillions to come.”Īlongside multiple new editions of the novel, and a graphic novel adaptation from K Woodman-Maynard, fans also are calling for a Muppet version. “Probably some of it is going to be good fanfic, and some of it could be really interesting. “Here we go with the Gatsby carousel,” says Anne Margaret Daniel, an F Scott Fitzgerald scholar. As one Twitter wit put it: “ The Great Gatsby’s out of copyright? Sounds like we’ve been given the green light.” On the fan fiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3), someone has uploaded a version of the novel that search-and-replaces Gatsby with Gritty, the name of the furry mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers ice hockey team. The start of the year also brought the release of The Gay Gatsby (“Everyone’s got something to hide, but the secrets come out at Gaylord Gatsby’s parties – the gayest affairs West Egg ever had…”), and Jay the Great, a “modern retelling” of the story. More than 25m copies of The Great Gatsby have been sold since it was first published in 1925, and the expiration of copyright, 95 years after it was released, opens the door to anything and everything fans might want to do with it. Like F Scott Fitzgerald’s hallowed novel, it is narrated by Nick Carraway, but in this version, according to the promotional blurb, “Gatsby doesn’t seem to eat anything, and has an aversion to silver, garlic, and the sun”. On 2 January this year, the day after The Great Gatsby entered the US public domain, The Great Gatsby Undead was self-published on Amazon.
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