WB To Open ‘Great Gatsby’ Dec. 25, 2012

COMMENTS (15)

• Isn’t that the same day that Diango Unchained comes out or am I wrong?

  Comment by Rachel — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 4:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Surprising, considering The Hobbit will still be fresh at the theaters, and making loads of cash. In that case, I don’t see this doing well against the competition.

  Comment by JohnDoe — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 4:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • It may be a limited Christmas release to qualify for Oscar consideration and then expand to a wide release in January. At least I hope that will be the case. The competition will be fierce around this time.

    Comment by Gold — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 5:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • So they’re dumping wide in January then, already predicting it’s going to suck.

      Who wants to see a literary arthouse flick, a remake at that, on Xmas anyways. Bad timing.

      I’ll be going to see DJANGO. Slightly arthourse, sure, but epic.

      I think I’ll just wait for DVD on the Gatsby retread.

      Comment by Dump — Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 6:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• Meh. I went to a high school where they were constantly cleaning the graffiti off the walls. Book never spoke to me.

  Comment by Pass — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 4:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why 3D?

  Comment by ari — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 5:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Considering everyone dies on December 23rd that year I bet that will be a problem…

  THE MAYANS PREDICTED IT!!!!!:)

  Comment by Alex — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 6:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• All I’m really interested seeing in December 2012 is The Hobbit. I do plan on seeing this eventually as I loved the book but I can’t fathom why anyone would see The Great Gatsby in 3D.

  Comment by Britt — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 7:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m sorry, but if this “Gats” is anything at all, I’ll eat my hat. I see a Xmas ’12 opening, but on DVD in Buenos Aries.

  Comment by Joe — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 8:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Sydney looks just like West Egg

  Comment by Lanny Budd — Friday October 14, 2011 @ 8:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Great American novel adapted by this trivial, goofy Australian twit. I expect whip pans and jazz hands and bludgeoning camp. It’s going to make the 1974 version look great.

  Comment by Uch — Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 9:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• I rolled my eyes at the people who protested an Englishman being cast at Superman. However, for The Great Gatsby to be shot in Australia in 3D, Carey Mulligan as Daisy, and Baz! Especially, as the above poster noted, it is considered to be one of the great American novels…Ugh. 3D for a film about a classic. I just remain puzzled as to how the process turned out this way.

  Comment by Lila — Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 10:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m looking forward to this. Baz’s Romeo and Juliet was amazing, along with The Matrix they are the two movies that most exceeded my expectations. Ok, I admit that Moulin Rouge and Australia were movies that most failed to meet my expectations!

  Now that I’ve totally destroyed my credibility, I would like to add that I believe that this is where 3D really would shine; as opposed to movies like Transformers 3 (I was the stereo sup for one of the VFX houses on Transformers 3.) We evolved to see in stereo to help see the world at relatively close range, arm’s-length an somewhat longer. Our eyes are too close together, and our brain hasn’t been set up, to see stereo past about 20 feet. For intimate settings, though, stereo 3D has the possibility of immersing you into the scene.

  I can easily imagine many scenes in Gatsby in relatively small rooms; with many people, furniture, and architecture disported in front of the camera in complex depth relationship — with some slow camera moves and rich stereo — being just beautiful, completely transporting you back to that gilded age and letting the audience be a part of it rather than just a spectator. It’s a perfect movie for stereo.

  As I said, I can’t wait to see it.

  Comment by Thad Beier — Sunday October 16, 2011 @ 7:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually, I’m looking forward to his next 3D project: “James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”.

  Comment by CynicalCritic — Monday October 17, 2011 @ 10:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually, I’m looking frontward to his close 3D throw: “Book Author’s A Portrait of the Creator as a New Man.

  Comment by johnwodwq — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 3:20pm PST  Reply to this post