Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby cast complete

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Baz Luhrmann
Jason Clarke the latest to join the folk at West Egg in Luhrmann’s adaptation of an American jazz age classic
Years in the coming, ’s controversial adaptation of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s is beginning to
take shape, with the news that the small but crucial part of mechanic George Wilson has gone to Aussie actor Jason Clarke.
is set to take on the role of self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, the cipher at the centre of the novel, alongside as narrator Nick Carraway, and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, the married society girl Gatsby covets.
Luhrmann has once again teamed up with long-time collaborator Craig Pearce for screenwriting duty. The pair worked together on the screenplays for Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet and Luhrmann’s directorial debut Strictly Ballroom.
So far, the only real excitement that news of Luhrmann’s adaptation has provoked is the angry kind. Not only ire at his decision to shoot the film’s iconic Long Island locations in Sydney, Australia, but also for the baffling announcement made earlier this year that The Great Gatsby was to be done in 3D. The general consensus when that story broke: Huh?
What possible purpose could 3D, the tool of pointy swords, jutting revolver barrels and stuff flying out over the audience’s heads, serve in Fitzgerald’s rich, narrator-heavy, social observation novel? Perhaps we should mentally prepare ourselves for some kick-ass Charleston sequences and get ready to duck at Jordan’s golf tournament.
Makes you wish that in his younger and more vulnerable years, Baz Luhrmann’s father had given him some advice, namely, “Whenever you feel like molesting a national icon with flash-in-the-pan technological nonsense, just remember that all the people in this world don’t want you to.”

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