Leonardo Dicaprio Possibility For Baz Luhrmann’s ‘great Gatsby’?

Brian Warmoth, MTV Movies Blog
Fri, 03/27/2009 - 1:13pm

With F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button” collecting a trio of Oscars this year, picking up the writer’s best-known work “The Great Gatsby” sounds like a great decision for director Baz Luhrmann. The wildly experimental filmmaker behind “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet” loves period pieces, so his choice to take [...]

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