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EXCLUSIVE: While Baz Luhrmann hasn’t settled on whether he’ll make The Great Gatsby his next film, he workshopped the adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel that he wrote with frequent collaborator Craig Pearce. I’m told that Leonardo DiCaprio read the role of Gatsby, Tobey Maguire read Nick Carraway, and that The Town star Rebecca Hall read the role of Daisy. 
The picture is set up at Sony Pictures Entertainment and the reading went well, I’m told. Luhrmann workshops every script he’s considering and there’s no guarantee those actors will wind up starring in the film. Reports have mentioned Amanda Seyfried as a possible Daisy and I’ve heard Baz is sweet on Natalie Portman. Luhrmann and Catherine Martin are producing with Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher.
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I CANT WAIT TO WATCH THIS FILM!!!!!!!!!!
yes to rebecca hall. no to amanda seyfried
Yes to Rebecca Hall, and please God, NO, to Natalie Portman – she is ass-paralyzingly boring.
How many adaptations is it going to take before it’s settled that this particular book simply doesn’t work as a film? That what makes the book a masterpiece, doesn’t translate into cinematic terms?
Will Baz use is usual quick cutsand pop songs soundtrack? Oh gawd.
Amanda Seyfreid would be an awesome Daisy!!! She has the right flair and joie de vive! Tobey would suck, but Dicaprio would rock!! I would be fine with Dicaprio, Maguire, and the awesomely charming Seyfreid!!!
Rebecca Hall was sooooooo BAD at the Ahmanson’s production of “As You Like It”. I will never get over it! If her Daddy (Peter Hall) directed “Gatsby” then fine, but not Baz’s version! liked her in Woodys movie, but Seyfried is great for this!
Seriously? Audience’s are turned off by Luhrmann’s unrealistic kitsch.
His movies are all huge money losers.
AUSTRALIA — budget: 150 million. Domestic gross: 49 million.
MOULIN ROUGE — budget 60 mill. Gross 57 mill.
Why waste everyone’s time by not reporting real numbers? Does money made overseas not count as money?
Australia- Total Gross 208 million
Moulin Rouge- Total Gross 175 million AND 2 Oscar wins.
Go crawl in a hole– hater.
Uh.. Moulin Rouge set the stage for American Idol and Glee, so while audiences — at the time — might not have appreciated or gravitated to the outlandish, inventive, impressive and inspiring film, it primed the pump for pop song covers as legitimate entertainment. Go see Moulin Rouge again, still ahead of its time…
I walked out of it during it’s original run in NY. Best hour I ever took back for myself.
Oh, and I could barely sit through one episode of Glee. To each their own, I guess.
Huh?
“Popstars”, which premiered in New Zealand in 1999 (i.e. 2 years before “Moulin Rouge”), set the stage for “Pop Idol” set the stage for “American Idol”.
And “Glee” is more obviously indebted to “High School Musical” and its ilk (as well as Alexander Payne’s “Election”) than it is “Moulin Rouge”.
Can’t wait too to see this movie, another character for Leonardo Dicarpio and Tobey Maguire, appearing in a classic novel story is a great challenge to every ones movie career.
Hall is all
wrong. I know she’s maybe not on the ephemeral a list, but kirsten dunst would be good. As would January jones. Or Rachel mcadams. Or a sober lohan. Seyfried is a mumbler. Kind of joyless in her line readings.
Sounds like he’s trying to cast actors that look like how we imagine the characters and that’s never going to work. Gatsby really needs someone with a far away look in his eye. Like someone who’s not telling you something.
I’d cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The billionaire doesn’t need to be played by Robert Redford types anymore. The best rated movie right now has a billionaire being played by Jesse Eisenberg.
Gordon-Levitt can sell a bigger life and bigger persona. Leo just has the looks for the part.
As for Tobey playing Nick Carraway, that could work.
DiCaprio would be perfect for Gatsby. It’s not just about looks. Read the book.
To J: Hi, Joseph. Nice of you to join us & toot your own horn.
I say DiCaprio all the way. He is the best actor of our time.
Maguire? Not so much.
Joseph Gordon-Levitts brother died last week. I doubt he’s trawling the net looking for work right now.
Yes Nicko only good movies are domestic grossers. Bad ones don’t make any money. That’s why Transformers is the best movie ever made. Idiot.
Rachel mcadams. think the musical voice… remember???
Tobey McGuire has never been good, and I could never picture him as a good old boy. He just has no tooth whatsoever.
and please, you cannot cast a jewish girl as the archetypal wasp-
nonstarter
as beautiful and intelligent as she may be, Portman has not had any joy in her line delivery since she was a girl – always flat.
What needs to happen is to go back to the original Francis Ford Coppola script and shoot that — it was pretty amazing before jack Clayton got his hands on it. Otherwise, though I worship Rebecca Hall, she could not be Daisy. DiCaprio is too old.
Too old? Redford was the same age when he played Gatsby. Most of the time when DiCaprio is cast in something the comments are “he looks too young,” “he’s got a baby face.” Now he’s too old?
Great. Another Gatsby failure in the offing. They never learn, do they?
Leighton Meester for Daisy. I know, I know but don’t judge a book by it’s cover. I don’t care that she’s on that soap Gossip Girl, she can act her ass off, is charismatic and could pull off a layered character like Daisy perfectly. She also has an acting style that would work well with Luhrmanns moviemaking.
and add Ryan Gosling as Gatsby and Jonathan Tucker instead of Tobey
Gatsby would be interesting as a mini series on HBO ,the story and characters would have more time to sink in with an audience. This approach works well for English BBC productions,eg; Pride and Prejudice, or Brideshead. As it is now,a movie version of Gatsby would not draw a big audience but television might.
Tobey Maguire as Nick Carroway?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
Did he not read the novel in order to adapt it, for crying out loud? Tobey absolutely can not project the kind of corrupt menace and power of Nick Carroway, he’s not in the same universe. Terrible call.
You’ve got the characters confused. Nick is not corrupt or menancing. You’re thinking of Tom, played by Bruce Dern in the 1970′s version.
The Great Gatsby was all about tone and, especially, VOICE. It’s called The Great American Novel for a reason, so leave it alone.
But @feather, “her voice was full of money,” according to Gatsby, not that it was “musical” (or am I forgetting something?).
Gatsby, however, should be played by an unknown, IMHO, not a matinee idol like Leo. One of the reasons to leave this book alone is because casting is so problematical: no one is right for any of the leads.
I’ve always liked that woman friend of Daisy’s who had that unforgettable line about why she liked big parties: “because at small parties you can’t have any privacy.”
How true.
Werdy-werd.
Are some people confusing Nick Carraway with Tom Buchanan? Yes, Tobey would never be able to play ex-jock Buchanan, but he’s perfect as the narrator/observer Nick.
Wrong movie for Baz. He should have done The Master and Margarita, which was rumored a few months ago on a European web site. Apparently he went to Moscow to meet with Bulgakov’s heirs. The Master and Margarita directed by Baz Luhrmann would have been amazing. Him doing Gatsby? Not so sure.
Why would anyone want to remake this boring story?
That said I think Natalie Portman would make a wonderful Daisy.