THE GREAT GATSBY Production Notes - Visual Hollywood
THE GREAT GATSBY Production Notes - Visual Hollywood
THE GREAT GATSBY Production Notes - Visual Hollywood
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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>GREAT</strong> <strong>GATSBY</strong> (2013)<br />
PRODUCTION NOTES<br />
Synopsis<br />
"I want to write something new,<br />
something extraordinary and beautiful<br />
and simple and intricately patterned."<br />
—F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />
From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big<br />
screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. In his adaptation, the filmmaker<br />
combines his distinctive visual, sonic, and storytelling styles in 3 Dimensions, weaving a Jazz Age<br />
cocktail faithful to Fitzgerald's text and relevant to now. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the title role.<br />
"The Great Gatsby" follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to<br />
New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and<br />
sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving<br />
millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering,<br />
blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of<br />
the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the<br />
world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy,<br />
and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.<br />
Academy Award® nominee DiCaprio ("Django Unchained," "The Aviator") plays Jay Gatsby, with<br />
Tobey Maguire starring as Nick Carraway; Oscar® nominee Carey Mulligan ("An Education") and<br />
Joel Edgerton as Daisy and Tom Buchanan; Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke as Myrtle and George<br />
Wilson; and newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker. Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan<br />
plays the role of Meyer Wolfshiem.<br />
Oscar® nominee Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge!") directed the film in 3D from a screenplay he cowrote<br />
with frequent collaborator Craig Pearce, based on Fitzgerald's novel. Luhrmann produced,<br />
along with Catherine Martin, Academy Award® winner Douglas Wick ("Gladiator"), Lucy Fisher<br />
and Catherine Knapman. The executive producers are Academy Award® winner Barrie M. Osborne<br />
("The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King"), Shawn "JAY Z" Carter, and Bruce Berman.<br />
Two-time Academy Award®-winning production and costume designer Catherine Martin ("Moulin<br />
Rouge!") designed the film, as well as produced. The director of photography is Simon Duggan,<br />
and the editors are Matt Villa, Jason Ballantine and Jonathan Redmond. The music is by Craig<br />
Armstrong, with Anton Monsted serving as executive music supervisor and co-producer.<br />
Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, in association with<br />
A&E Television, a Bazmark/Red Wagon Entertainment <strong>Production</strong>, a Film by Baz Luhrmann, "The<br />
Great Gatsby." The film will be distributed in RealD 3D, 3D and 2D by Warner Bros. Pictures, a<br />
Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.<br />
This film has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some violent images,sexual content, smoking,<br />
partying and brief language.<br />
© 2013 Warner Bros. Pictures<br />
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