First Trailer for THE GREAT GATSBY Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan
Here’s the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Isla Fisher, and Joel Edgerton. While it’s neat to see Luhrmann’s unique visual flair on full display, the terrible choice of music and unfinished effects were incredibly distracting and ultimately off-putting. It’s a great cast and the source material is fantastic so I’m hopeful that they’ll do the book some justice. The Great Gatsby 3D hits theaters on December 25th. Trailer courtesy of Apple.
The Great Gatsby follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.