Following Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Heads to Warner Bros.

The Great Gatsby Heads to Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. is closing in on a deal to distribute Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Nothing is finalized as of yet, but the deal could be sealed as early as Friday.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star as Jay Gatsby, while Carey Mulligan is portraying Daisy Buchannan and Tobey Maguire is set to play the narrator Nick Carraway. Baz Luhrmann will direct from a script he co-wrote with Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge).
We reported last week that Baz Luhrmann might not be directing The Great Gatsby, although that does not seem to be the case now. Oddly enough, the story stemmed from a direct quote from Baz Luhrmann himself. It seems that everything is falling into place for The Great Gatsby now, though.
It isn't clear when production will start on The Great Gatsby quite yet.
The Great Gatsby comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire. The film is directed by Baz Luhrmann.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

“In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day.”

“Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.”

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.”

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”

“...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.”

"Sudden revulsion seized Amory, disgust, loathing for the whole incident. He desired frantically to be away, never to see Myra again, never to kiss anyone; he became conscious of his face and hers, of their clinging hands, and he wanted to creep out of his body and hide somewhere safe out of sight, up in the corner of his mind."

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The Great Gatsby Heads to Warner Bros.