SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Gatsby Police Procedural With Gender Twist In Works At NBC.

NBC is eyeing a fresh spin on a literary classic, with a partially gender-swapped police procedural take on The Great Gatsby in development, Deadline has learned.

The series, titled Gatsby, hails from writer/EPs Jake Coburn and Jason Tracey and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

It’s billed as a modern-day police procedural about Det. Jay Gatsby, a devilishly charming investigator with a con-man’s gift for reading human behavior, and decorated New York State Police Det. Nicole “Nicky” Carraway, who was born to be a cop but dreams of becoming a writer.

The gender-swapped character here is Nicky, a female counterpart to bond salesman Nick Carraway, who as neighbor to enigmatic self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, serves as narrator to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The book finds Nick moving to the fictional Long Island neighborhood of West Egg, where he becomes drawn into the world of Gatsby amid his efforts to rekindle a romance with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan.

Go home NBC, you’re drunk – and you don’t write nearly as well as Fitzgerald did, when he was drunk.