{"id":11646,"date":"2011-02-01T07:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11646"},"modified":"2011-02-01T07:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T12:46:25","slug":"will-luhrmann-drop-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/01\/will-luhrmann-drop-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Luhrmann Drop GREAT GATSBY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/BazLuhrmann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11650\" title=\"BazLuhrmann\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/BazLuhrmann-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Recently, director Baz Luhrmann has been concentrating his energies on mounting a big screen adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s classic novel <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>. He has spent time working with attached stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, workshopping the script to get it to a point where he feels he can move ahead to actually rolling cameras on the film.<\/p>\n<p>But now it is looking like Luhrmann may be backing off of the project. <em>New York Magazine<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/entertainment\/2011\/01\/great_gatsby_baz_luhrmann.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vulture<\/a> blog talked with the director before this weekend&#8217;s Directors Guild Awards where he admitted &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I gotta make a decision in three days time&#8230; Whether to do it or not. I think I&#8217;ve been a bit shaded out because I want everything to be perfectly positioned on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Luhrmann does go ahead with the project, DiCaprio will star as the film&#8217;s titular mysterious millionaire, Carey Mulligan as the object of his desire Daisy Buchanan and Maguire as the novel&#8217;s narrator, Nick Caraway.<\/p>\n<p>Luhrmann promised that there will be an announcement by the &#8220;by the end of the week,&#8221; and when that news breaks, we&#8217;ll bring it to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Recently, director Baz Luhrmann has been concentrating his energies on mounting a big screen adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s classic novel The Great Gatsby. He has spent time working with attached stars Leonardo DiCaprio and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/01\/will-luhrmann-drop-great-gatsby\/\" title=\"Will Luhrmann Drop GREAT GATSBY?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1132,2431,3454,3280,546],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baz-luhrmann","9":"tag-carey-mulligan","10":"tag-leonard-dicaprio","11":"tag-the-great-gatsby","12":"tag-tobey-maguire"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11646"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}