GREAT GATSBY first look photos

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 11:02am

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 11:10am

Beautiful!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 11:31am

It looks nice. I'm a little over DiCaprio for now, but the design looks quite beautiful.

[artscallion]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 11:52am

I'll probably skip this, never having been a DiCaprio fan. But it does have a nice look. Though she looks odd/photoshopped in that pic of them in the car. Something about the shadow line along the side of her face closest to him. Her hair is wild in that one!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 12:37pm

I'll go see it just for the costumes.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 1:05pm

It looks beautiful, but that's hardly a surprise. If Luhrman does one thing, it's that he consistently produces things that look beautiful.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 1:18pm

Anybody else notice the leg wrap in the first photo? I wonder if she injured herself during filming.

EDIT: On second thought ... maybe it's just a funky angle and lighting.

Updated On: 12/16/11 at 01:18 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 1:29pm

I bet it was when she had to leap around a gazebo singing Sixteen Going on Seventeen.

Updated On: 12/16/11 at 01:29 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:16pm

^ LOL

Poor Charmian Carr.

The first thing I thought of was that Carey Mulligan probably injured herself in some big '20s flapper number. Baz sure "beat up" Nicole during filming of Moulin Rouge. She had broken ribs, legs, fingers, heart ... ooops! :)

I don't know how "out there" Baz plans on getting with his Great Gatsby, but I assume it won't be a by-the-numbers adaptation. I figure there will be "jazz age parties" with scads of flappers doing the Charleston the likes of which can only be imagined while high on bathtub gin or cocaine.

So maybe Daisy Buchanan slipped and tripped into a hip-bathtub full of gin!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 5:24pm

Luhrmann movies always look beautiful but depth is not one of his strong-suits. Even as somebody who finds DiCaprio overrated and running on autopilot for the last 10 years, I am warming to his Gatsby. It is Maguire as Nick who I am having issues with. DiCaprio must have been insistent he'd get cast. I also imagine Joel Edgerton as George Wilson rather than Tom.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/17/11 at 1:45pm

Agree about Edgerton, and am I the only one who sees Michael Shannon as an ideal Tom? Maguire may prove a lovely Nick though and I have guarded hopes for Mulligan. I would have preferred Mark Ruffalo as Gatsby but Dicaprio at least is a great deal better than either of the previous movie Jays. Light years closer than either Ladd or Redford.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 12/17/11 at 4:30pm

The wigs are so...wiggy.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/17/11 at 4:57pm

What about Toby Stephens, henrikegerman?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/17/11 at 5:08pm

Toby Stephens as Tom?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/17/11 at 5:12pm

I was responding to this:

"I would have preferred Mark Ruffalo as Gatsby but Dicaprio at least is a great deal better than either of the previous movie Jays. Light years closer than either Ladd or Redford."


Stephens played Jay in a TV remake which aired on A&E back in 2000. Mira Sorvino was Daisy, Paul Rudd was Nick, and Martin Donovan was Tom.

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 12:25am

I just have to say that I hate the casting of Tobey Maguire as Nick. While I will give that he does have the passivity required for the role, he's just too bland to make anything out of a character that is basically the glue that holds together the seams of the entire plot.

That, and I won't be able to stop thinking that he'll rip off his suit and swing away as spiderman...

I do love the casting (and look) of DiCaprio and Mulligan. and Isla Fisher as Myrtle will be pure gold.

Updated On: 12/18/11 at 12:25 AM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 12:33am

I like Maguire, but after seeing his powerful performance in Brothers, I'm not eager to see him back playing the kind of role he's so often typecast in. I was hoping Lee Pace would be cast as Nick.

[Scripps2]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 6:47am

Does DiCaprio have the acting chops for this? I positively dread him getting the lead role in the rumoured Alan Turing biopic.

Apart from DiCaprio, the rest of the cast look incredibly young. This could be a high school production of The Great Gatsby.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 6:52am

I've said this before ... Gatsby isn't a tough role, but it's a tricky role to convey, mostly from a writing and directorial standpoint. He's an enigma, and is FAR more interesting when discussed, idolized, and observed from afar. It's all the set-up that makes him glamorous. The man himself is largely a let-down when depicted in a literal (non-poetic) sense. I pity anyone who portrays him, for that reason.

Can Leo play it? As well or better than any of his predecessors, but who knows if that will make it interesting enough in this movie. It will largely depend on Baz Luhrmann and the way he chooses to present him.

EDIT: As for Tobey Maguire, I think he's an excellent choice for Tom.

Updated On: 12/18/11 at 06:52 AM

[Scripps2]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 7:53am

That's a very interesting post. I guess that's something I intuitively felt about Gatsby but it hadn't actually registered with me intellectually.

I've been googling ages and am amazed: Tobey Maguire looks 15 years younger here than he actually is.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 11:09am

"As for Tobey Maguire, I think he's an excellent choice for Tom."

Best12 do you mean as Nick? There is nothing "hulking" about Maguire, which is why a MIchael Shannon or a Josh Brolin seems the right way to go to my thinking.

Stagemanager, I believe I only saw snippets of that. Like Ladd and Redford, Stephens also seems too white glove to me for Jay, but he's a good actor and I can see that he might have been able to pull it off.

Scripps, I've never understood the oft heard cry that DiCaprio doesn't have the acting chops for this or that, but it just goes to prove AC's point, posted recently, that acting is a very subjective art form.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 11:29am

Brain fart! That's what I get for posting so early in the morning.

YES, I mean as Nick.