Jay Z Confirmed to Score Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY
I got 99 problems but Daisy Buchanan ain’t one! Baz Luhrmann has (naturally) enlisted the one and only Jay Z to help score his upcoming $150 million 3D film adaptation of Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel of the same name. This would be surprising news if it was helmed by any other director, but Luhrmann isn’t exactly the type to feel constrained by source material. Jay Z will be composing the film alongside Jeymes Samuel of The Bullitts (??) and here is the formal announcement via twitter:
Jay-Z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC The Great Gatsby! It is too DOPE for words!
— THE BULLITTS (@TheBullitts) December 30, 2012
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.
Yo Daisy, gimme some of dat sweet dat nasty dat gushy stuff!