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Best Costume Design in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | 2001
In a press interview, Paul Rudd referred to this television adaptation as the worst adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. When asked if there was any redeeming factor about working on the film, he quipped: "They paid me."
Critics lambasted Carl Davis' musical score as more befitting a 1940s film noir than a 1920s Jazz Age drama. Davis later claimed that he did not have sufficient time to compose an era-appropriate score.
As a television adaptation, budget issues plagued the production. To reduce costs, Gatsby's car was changed from yellow to white, and Gatsby's expensive pink suit was eliminated. Gatsby's lavish parties were filmed in Montreal and are sparsely populated because the production couldn't afford many dancing extras to fill out the scenes.
According to screenwriter John J. McLaughlin, the producers told him to transform F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel into a hot romance that would appeal to younger television viewers and to alter the original novel as much as he wished. For this reason, Daisy Buchanan is a more likable character, and several scenes that do not exist in the book were added.
John J. McLaughlin's screenplay altered the confrontation between Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby from the Plaza Hotel to the Biltmore Hotel at the request of A&E which had a television sweepstakes promoting the film. One of the sweepstakes prizes was a trip to the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida.
"Owl Eyes: What do you think? Jordan Baker: About what? Owl Eyes: About THAT. Jordan Baker: Books? Owl Eyes: They're real. Here. Let me show you. They have pages in them. See? A bonafide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. I've been drunk for about a week and I thought a library would sober me up. Jordan Baker: Did it help? Owl Eyes: I can't tell you. I've only been here an hour."
"Nick Carraway: The history of that summer really begins when I drove across the bay to the more fashionable East Egg to have dinner with the Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college. His family was enormously wealthy and he'd been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at Yale. He and Daisy had spent a year in France drifting aimlessly among the rich. "This was to be a permanent move," Daisy told me over the telephone. But I didn't believe her."
