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He just paid tribute to his home country in the epic Australia, but director Baz Luhrmann is landing next on Long Island. Yes, it’s true: I can report that Baz Luhrmann’s next project is definitely 
The Great Gatsby. The Aussie filmmaker recently purchased rights to the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic and my favorite book, which is set primarily on the lush North Shore (aka the Gold Coast) where I grew up in East Egg. Thankfully, Baz should wipe away memories of that 1974 abomination with Robert Redford and the horribly miscast Mia Farrow, or the 1949 laugher with Alan Ladd. (And let’s not forget that Entourage just cast Vincent Chase as Nick in Marty Scorsese’s version.) My insiders confirm that Luhrmann is actively searching for a young actress to portray Daisy, Jay Gatsby’s unrequited love. I think Amy Adams fills the bill (because, mercifully, box office poison Nicole Kidman is too old). Forget my suggestion of Paul Rudd for Nick because he played that part in an A&E version I never saw. As for Gatsby himself, Baz’s Romeo & Juliet leading man Leonardo DiCaprio if he doesn’t break the budget. Or James Marsden on the cheap. Other names?
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Sigh…So now F. Scott Fitzgerald is the new Jane Austen…..I had always thought Jay Gatsby should be played by Brad Pitt but….oh well..Baz Luhrmann will surely crank up the lushness and opulence of this story
Amy Adams I agree. But also I think Rose Byrne would be perfect.
Who’s adapting?
Does this mean we can look forward to a TOLDJA! post once Variety announces it? Yeesh.
Enough with Amy Adams, though. She’s the NEW Nicole Kidman, getting every major female role. Hollywood’s tunnel vision with regards to casting is depressing. Why can’t SAG do anything about THAT?
Hmm… Paul Rudd? It certainly wouldn’t fit his new man-child comedy niche.
no no no….10 yrs ago, it should have been ray liotta, see gatsby is supposed to look like a romantic hero, but when he opens his mouth he’s from hoboken NJ, he is lower class, he sounds like a gangster….who tries to move up in the world to win daisy, the perennial east coast socialite….that is the conflict, obviously redford couldn’t hack that, and alan ladd was awful too. Perhaps its time to go african american with gatsby!
boo baby luv, paul rudd WAS nick in the a&e mow
Brad is too old looking now.
On Entourage, Vince Chase just landed the role of Nick in a Martin Scorsese remake of Gatsby, right? Gatsby is all the rage.
What? I thought Scorcese was directing, Vinnie Chase was starring and they were setting it in the upper west side. Damn, next thing you’ll tell me is that I should stop hoping for the Aquaman 2 Blue-Ray DVD starring Jake Gyllenhaal to be underneath the Christmas tree next Thursday. Thanks Nikki or maybe I should say Scrooge?
BTW what’s all this nonsense about Ari Gold having mercury poisoning?
James McAvoy might make an interesting Gatsby, although I can DEFINITELY see James Marsden.
And Paul Rudd would have an interesting time playing Nick again Baz style…
I love Amy Adams, but you know they’ll offer it to Kate Winslet.
Simon Baker would be the perfect Gatsby, but since he is now on a dreaded “TV” show I guess that makes him poisonous. Therefore, since casting is all about obsession instead of balance, Christian Bale has probably already signed on.
The 1974 “The Great Gatsby” was directed by Jack Clayton (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071577/) with script by Francis Ford Coppola. Check out the 1949 version (Directed by Elliot Nugent scripted by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum), albeit with the sexuality watered down by the Production Code of the time and by it’s star, Alan Ladd, who made a perfect Gatsby other than the fact that he wouldn’t take off his wedding ring, protested about kissing actress Betty Field who played Daisy because he claimed that “Alan Ladd doesn’t kiss married women”!!
ryan gosling as gatsby; natalie portman as daisy; james mcavoy as nick
James Franco
DiCaprio is way too old to play Gatsby. He’s supposed to be 25, for crying out loud.
Simon Baker…Brad Pitt…Christian Bale…all these names that are being thrown around are simply too old.
Pump some new names into the mix and call in some fresh blood. Younger actors with breathtaking talent.
After all, Nick Carraway was 29 and Daisy was in her late 20′s.
I love the James McAvoy/Amy Adams.
Sorry, but Amy Adams is not the type of girl a man would design his entire life around. She also doesn’t have the flippant cruelty of a Daisy. Maybe Charlize Theron? Kate Winslett? Matt Damon for Gatsby? Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Ethan Hawke for Nick?
Matt Damon, Philip Hoffman, Ethan Hawk, Charlize Theron and Kate Winslett are WAAAAAAY TOO OLD. In the novel they being as twenty-somethings, not mid thirties, early forties.
Here’s my pics: Ryan Gosling as Gatsby , Rose Byrne as Daisy (or Zooey Deschanel), Joseph Gordan-Levitt as Nick (James McAvoy) and Chris Pine as Tom.
Ryan Gosling would be a great Nick
Clooney as Gatsby and Matt Damon as Nick.
Call it Gatsby’s 11 and they con Daisy out of her money….
Good God, I don’t think there could be a worse match between director and material. Luhrmann is way too stylized for this kind of story.
Leonardo DiCaprio is too boyish to play Gatsby, and I doubt he’d be willing to be the barely seen figure in the distance Gatsby is for the about the first 1/3 of the movie. He might make a good Nick Carraway.
It’s a tricky book to adapt, because it’s very hard to cast. It needs young actors in their late 20s to early 30s, but very few in that range have the dramatic weight to pull it off.
What about James Franco as Gatsby? And Anne Hathaway would be a good Daisy.
I’m thrilled by this announcement- have been reading a fantastic bio on Fitzgerald’s editor as well. Robert Pattinson, Patrick Wilson or Chris Evans for Jay, James McAvoy or Tobey Maguire for Nick, Keira Knightly or Amy Adams for Daisy…though there has to be someone else out there that is more of an unknown that is right for Daisy…