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The Great Gatsby (2012)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Synopsis
This $125 million verson of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel – directed by ‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge’ director Baz Luhrmann – started shooting in Sydney in September 2010 with a cast including Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. Maguire is playing Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to Long Island in 1922 and finds himself living next door to wealthy Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio). Mulligan plays Daisy Buchanan, Nick’s cousin who rekindles a relationship with Gatsby despite being married to Tom (Joel Edgerton). This being a Baz Luhrmann film, one expects a grandiose level of splendour and glamour from this adaptation, and Luhrmann will surely heavily indulge the look, sound and feel of New York City and Long Island in the jazz age. Luhrmann is shooting the film in 3D, so continuing the format’s reign at cinemas as it continues to spread from lowest-common-denominator blockbusters to the more upscale side of cinema.
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