From an article in the September 27 issue of the New Yorker, on a stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby currently running in NYC:

At first, there was an impulse to do "Gatsby" using puppets made from household objects--Nick Carraway was to have been played by a flask thermos--but when Budow sought to acquire the rights to the work he was told that the deal for the TV movie, then in production, prohibited rival adaptations.

The bottle scrubber which had already been cast to play the role of Daisy was devastated.