Baz Luhrmann strikes again in the summer of 2013 with his adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan. This is great casting, and although I'm sure Luhrmann will take a few liberties with the presentation of this novel, I'm extremely eager to see what he does with it. His Romeo + Juliet is excellent for all its bizarre interpretations, and it pains me to learn today that the release date has been pushed from December of this year to summer of next.
The trailer is stylized as heck and looks pretty dang good to me.
I'll probably reread the novel before it opens. To be honest, I've never cared much for Gatsby and think it is overpraised. It has been my contention for years that among English majors, there are The Great Gatsby people and there are The Grapes of Wrath people, and I have always been among the latter. But I'm willing to give the novel another chance, especially since I think this movie could be brilliant.
The trailer is stylized as heck and looks pretty dang good to me.
I'll probably reread the novel before it opens. To be honest, I've never cared much for Gatsby and think it is overpraised. It has been my contention for years that among English majors, there are The Great Gatsby people and there are The Grapes of Wrath people, and I have always been among the latter. But I'm willing to give the novel another chance, especially since I think this movie could be brilliant.
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