The Great Gatsby
Dream dangerously.
Country
Production
Budget
$105 000 000
Revenue
$353 641 895
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Douglas Wick, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Catherine Knapman, Lucy Fisher, Barrie M. Osborne, Bruce Berman, Jay-Z
Operator
Simon Duggan
Composer
Craig Armstrong
Artist
Catherine Martin, Simon Elsley, Jenny Hitchcock
Audition
Ronna Kress, Nikki Barrett
Editing
Jason Ballantine, Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond
All team (101)
All team (101)
Short description
Nick Carraway, an aspiring writer from the Midwest, moves to New York in 1922 and rents a small house on Long Island next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a wealthy man whose lavish parties draw crowds but whose past remains obscure. Nick is also cousin to Daisy Buchanan, who lives across the bay with her husband Tom, a wealthy and unfaithful man of old money. When Gatsby asks Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy, Nick is drawn into the world of the rich and becomes a witness to their illusions, loves and deceptions.
The film is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, directed by Baz Luhrmann from a screenplay he wrote with Craig Pearce. It is the fifth feature Luhrmann directed, arriving between Australia (2008) and Elvis (2022). Leonardo DiCaprio plays Gatsby, Tobey Maguire plays Nick, Carey Mulligan plays Daisy, and Joel Edgerton plays Tom, with Elizabeth Debicki and Isla Fisher among the supporting cast. The production involved 103 credited cast members and 101 credited crew members.
Made on a budget of 105 million US dollars, the film took about 351 million US dollars worldwide, a strong return on its cost. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.2 out of 10 from roughly 640,000 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 7.3 out of 10 from over 13,000 votes. A critics' rating of 6 out of 10 from 305 reviews places it below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” (1925).
- Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Rachel McAdams, Keira Knightley, Blake Lively, Abby Cornish, Michelle Williams, Natalie Portman, Eva Green, Anne Hathaway, Olivia Wilde, Jessica Alba, and Scarlett Johansson were considered for the role of Daisy Buchanan.
- Ben Affleck was considered for the role of Tom Buchanan, but due to scheduling conflicts, he had to decline. Luke Evans and Bradley Cooper were also considered for this role. However, the role ultimately went to Joel Edgerton.
- There were rumors that Hayley Atwell would play the role of Jordan Baker.
- Carey Mulligan was at the Fashion Awards when Baz Luhrmann called and told her she had been cast as Daisy Buchanan. The actress said that after that call she burst into tears, right in the middle of the room with Karl Lagerfeld, and the people standing around looked at her like she was crazy.
- Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire have actually been friends since childhood. And this is the first time they have appeared together on screen since the release of the film 'Don's Plum' (2000).
- Work on the film was suspended when director Baz Luhrmann was hit in the head by a moving camera crane. He ended up needing three stitches.
- The film was initially scheduled for release in December 2012, then the date was moved to July 2013, and eventually postponed to May 2013.
- Genuine Duesenberg automobiles are too rare and valuable to be used for driving action scenes (a Duesenberg SJ convertible coupe was sold at auction in March 2013 for $4.5 million). Two replicas of the Duesenberg Model J were painted yellow and modified to match each other for filming.
- Tom mentions Kapiolani and Punchbowl in a key scene with Daisy. Kapiolani Park is located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, between Waikiki and Diamond Head. The Punchbowl Crater is located 6 miles northwest of it.
- The film's director, Baz Luhrmann, played a cameo role in the film – a waiter in the restaurant where Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker met.
- The film was shot using a RED Epic camera.
- A painting of Zelda Fitzgerald can be noticed on the wall in the apartment where Tom and Myrtle live.
- The "French" telephone in the scene where the characters talk about the intrusive unwanted guest who called Tom was not invented until the mid-1930s. In 1922, you still had to hold a candlestick-style telephone in one hand and speak into the microphone while pressing the earpiece to your ear.
- The events unfold in 1922, but Gatsby's yellow car is a 1929 Duesenberg Model J.
- Some general shots of Manhattan show the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building still under construction. The film is set in 1922. Construction of the Chrysler Building began in 1928, and the Empire State Building in 1930.
- Almost all of the cars used in the film are from later years than 1922, the year the film is set in: a 1930 Buick Series 60, a 1932 Cadillac V-16, a 1930 Chevrolet Universal, a 1928 Chrysler Imperial, a 1930 Chrysler Six, a 1929 De Soto Six, a 1924 Dodge Brothers, a 1929 Ford Model A, a 1929 Packard Standard Eight, a 1929 Packard Standard Eight, a 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I, and a 1929 Studebaker President.
- The very first day of filming, director Baz Luhrmann dedicated to working on the tea party scene in the rain with characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan. It was a beautiful spring day, and creating the downpour shown in the film required 100,000 liters of water. Real rain started the next morning and didn't stop for three days.
- In the interior of Gatsby's mansion, director Baz Luhrmann reflected his own memories of the interior of the school he attended in Australia.
- The film contains several mentions of "Arrow Collars." This type of detachable shirt collar was a widely popular men's fashion accessory in the early 1920s, and models wearing them appeared in a very successful and popular advertising campaign.
- Baz Luhrmann conceived of this film during a global financial crisis while in Siberia. In one interview, he said: "If you put people in front of a mirror that tells them, 'You were drunk on money,' they won't want to look at it. But if you project that reflection onto another era, that story will be in demand."
- Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to play Gatsby because he liked "the idea of a man who was absolutely nothing and created himself, based solely on his own imagination." "Gatsby is one of the iconic characters because he can be interpreted in different ways: a hopeless romantic, an obsessed madman, or a dangerous gangster clinging to wealth," says DiCaprio.
- George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue plays as Gatsby enters, and this takes place in 1922. In reality, this musical piece did not appear until January 1924, and was first performed by the composer on February 12, 1924, accompanied by Paul Whiteman's orchestra.
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