G (2002)
The story moved to the Hamptons, with a hip-hop star in Gatsby’s place.
New money and old money still meet on Long Island. Make the new money a hip-hop star and see who lets him in.
You want the story now, in a world of hip-hop money.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the triangle: a self-made man, the woman he lost, and her old-money husband, watched by her cousin.
Changes: the decade and the world. Richard T. Jones is Summer G, Chenoa Maxwell is Sky, Blair Underwood is her husband Chip Hightower, and Andre Royo is Tre, the journalist cousin.
The Hamptons, where old money meets a newly rich hip-hop star. Richard T. Jones as Summer G, Chenoa Maxwell as Sky, Blair Underwood as Chip Hightower, Andre Royo as Tre. Directed by Christopher Scott Cherot.
Whose story is it?
Summer G’s, the Gatsby of this one.
How much time does it ask?
97 minutes. Directed by Christopher Scott Cherot. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 and opened in US cinemas in 2005.
Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood, Chenoa Maxwell, Andre Royo, Sonja Sohn, Laz Alonso.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
Common questions
Is the movie G based on The Great Gatsby?
Yes. It moves the story to the Hamptons, where a newly rich hip-hop star, Summer G, comes back for Sky, the woman he lost, now married to an old-money husband. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002.
More ways into West Egg: The Great Gatsby (1949), with Alan Ladd · The Great Gatsby (1974), with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow · The Great Gatsby (2000 television film)