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The Great Gatsby

Why we’re excited...
Because no one puts on a show like Baz Luhrmann. This is the director behind the exhilarating exuberant excess of ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and the man who pumped life into ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

Now he’s shaking up F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920s classic. And just look at the talent he’s pulled in: Jay-Z in charge of the soundtrack; Prada designing the frocks; jewels by Tiffany.

Who stars?
Luhrmann says he only ever had one choice for Jay Gatsby, the reclusive millionaire – Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in ‘Romeo + Juliet’. The hunt for Gatsby’s lost love, Daisy, took longer. In the end Carey Mulligan beat off the likes of Keira Knightley, Michelle Williams and Scarlett Johansson. Tobey Maguire is the story’s narrator Nick Carraway.

When's it out?
May 16