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This week Warner Bros released the first official stills for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. Now Australian news reports say an on-set injury to the filmmaker forced an early end to this year’s shooting of the pic due in theaters next Christmas. The director cracked his head on a camera crane, as detailed by co-producer Anton Monsted to the Sydney Morning Herald: ”We were on quite a cramped set and he was ducking under the crane. He struck his head on the weights on the end of the camera crane. He split open his head and we had to get the doctor.” Producers decided to stop filming and allow the cast and crew to get home for Christmas a day earlier than planned. Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, et al will return for additional shots in the new year. The hot $125M budgeted pic has been shooting at Fox Studios and locations around Sydney for the past 83 days.
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A model into a propeller,a director into a crane ballast… and they say things happen in threes… who’s next?
$125 M. Are you F’ing kidding me???? Why not just flush some cash down the toilet? Can anyone say AUSTRALIA?
All of Luhrmann’s movies so far have turned a profit.
Australia was a huge bomb.
WB is either doing it for Oscar GLORY or because they’re sick of being associated with crap like Green Lantern.
Only in the US, it was huge overseas.
Well, it did $161M overseas, $49M in US, for total of $211M worldwide on a $130M budget. That budget figure probably not including marketing, I wouldn’t call that huge overseas for the budget. A film typically needs to make 2-3 times it’s budget to do well.
Point being, $125M GG ain’t a good investment.
It underperformed on its opening weekend in the US or something, but it still turned a profit.
I don’t see people rushing to watch The Great Gatsby. Smells like a real stinker.
Could only be the ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald exacting vengeance for the inevitable butchering of his masterpiece
I may not like the source material, but no one should have to go through that shit. Get better soon, Baz!
You don’t like the source material? What, Great Gatsby not good enough for you? Don’t worry, the adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s The Host is coming out next year. That may be more your cup of tea.
I’m not a fan of anyone ripping a title off a Korean movie-and the premise for Parasyte-either. But Gatsby’s one of those empty books people read to feel more sophisticated than they really are. In that sense, you could argue that Fitzgerald was the original hipster.
You sound like Wallace Shawn in Manhattan.
I suspect you read The Great Gatsby only once when you were very young, or it could just be that you’re a pretentious little troll with a soul the size of an ant.
That sucks. Get well soon, Baz.
I must say, those stills look great. I never liked the Redford, Farrow, and Waterston version.
The book was pathetic self indulgent drivel. The last movie was a disaster. And can only hope this one sinks the studio and ends careers. Merry Christmas Hollywood.
Calling the book pathetic is pathetic itself. Have you written anything that defined a particular time period?
No, and neither has Fitzgerald.
This is your second post killing GATSBY, which is a masterpiece of concision and poetry and most certainly did capture and define its age. The final passage is up there with Joyce’s THE DEAD as the most eloquent and evocative in the canon of 20th century fiction. I guess it’s cool to be an internet contrarian, but knocking GATSBY and calling FSF a hipster is simply moronic.
Hear, hear!
Thank you! Especially for the comparison to The Dead, which is exactly what I thought of when I re-read Gatsby recently. You give me hope for literacy in LA.
By contrast, I was at a screening of John Huston’s film of The Dead and a woman actually asked, “Who’s James Joyce?” Pity I didn’t get her number, she and DZ could’ve gotten together and read Valley of the Dolls aloud to each other.
“No, and neither has Fitzgerald”. That’s clever…wrong, but clever.
Moulin Rouge and Australia were bloated disasters. Maybe the bump will do him good – make him forget the last decade.
A piece of Americana literature, American cast, American money and they are shooting this movie in Australia!
What about made in America? Spending those millions of American soil, employing American people???
That said – get well soon Buz.
I agree. Still, if you’re looking for the wide-open green spaces of 1924ish Long Island, Australia is probably a good stand-in. And with CGI these days, you can shoot anywhere.
Head into crane. Pretty much sums up how I felt after trying to sit through Moulin Rouge. It was like someone decided to remake an episode of The Monkeys. The pain only went away once I was out of the theater. Mean, but true.
I was working on a movie with Michael Bay, who once hit his head on a crane. When people asked if he was okay, if he needed a Dr. he said, ” F- you, F-the Dr. wipe that blood off my shoe, get back to work, I’m not paying you to stand around and look at me.” Then he fired everyone and finished the movie by himself. (It was the island), which I kinda liked….
Ouch. Get well! But if it means no more “films” like the headache inducing mess Moulin Rouge…take your time.
As far as I’m concerned Baz you could Direct the phone book and it would be worth seeing.
My only regret was I never cast anything for you . You are Brilliant.I can’t wait to see Gatsby with Leonardo
And Carey Brilliant. Get well Soon.
rhonda
Exactly. So why not shoot in the states? F’ing producers and studios can and should fail. Another film I won’t pay to see.
ouch.
So a director is badly injured on the set of a big budget studio feature and all the people on this site can do is bitch and complain about Gatsby, Luhrmann, Fittzgerald, the studio, film, budgets and anything else they can think of. Nice to see Hollywood in the Holiday spirit. Get well soon Baz.
@producer: With shame, you are absolutely right. Sometimes we lose the forest…
Very best wishes for a speedy recovery, Baz.
Those stills look really good. Great casting. It will be a big hit.
I enjoyed the Mira Sorvino version. Speaking of, where the heck did she go? COME BACK MIRA.