The Great Gatsby (2012)

In 2012, Baz Luhrmann, director of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge (2001), is set to direct, produce, and write the screenplay for F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel published in 1925, The Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby is a story set in Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the 1920s. Without revealing too much, the tale is told through the conscious narrative voice of Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate, who moves to New York and next-door to the eccentric Jay Gatsby, a millionaire. Regardless of the elaborate and opulent parties he throws every Saturday, Gatsby is dissatisfied, and Carraway discovers why. Gatsby has always been in love with Daisy, and although the feelings are reciprocal, she is married to someone else, Tom Buchanan. Through the lives of such characters, the tale explores the damning and insightful concepts of "The American Dream" in that era.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Casting for Luhrmann's film is indeed a treat for movie fans with a large well-known cast of actors. Leonardo DiCaprio, who also featured as 'Romeo' sixteen years previously in Luhrmann's film, is set to play Jay Gatsby. With Tobey Maguire, the leading-role in the Spider-Man Trilogy (2002-7), as Carraway, and Carey Mulligan, 'Winnie Gekko' in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), as the female lead of Daisy Buchanan.

Carey Mulligan

 

The film will clearly be compared to the Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by Jack Clayton in 1974, and in particular the passion demonstrated by Robert Redford and Mia Farrow will be a challange to better.
Although, it is a certainty that the acting greatness of DiCaprio and Mulligan is set to make this film as captivating as it could be.

Obviously, I personally cannot wait for this movie to be released as I am a major fan of the novel, and I love Luhrmann's direction.
Bring on 2012!