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James Ponsoldt set to write, direct ‘West of Sunset’ about F. Scott Fitzgerald

Do you have a book about a famous author that you want made into a movie? It seems like James Ponsoldt is your guy, at least if you want it well-made. Following his recent work about David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour, it seems like Ponsoldt will be adapting a book about …

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It’s Hard to Make the Audience Hate Your Characters but Love Your Film

It was only after half of Lurhmann’s Gatsby that I finally understood just how hard it is to make a film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. Fitzgerald had such a disdain for his time that there isn’t a single character in The Great Gatsby that you are supposed to like. However, as author John Green said …

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