Baz Luhrmann, director of Moulin Rouge and Australia, has purchased the film rights to The Great Gatsby.
The "Australia" helmer has purchased the rights to "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald's tome of the Roaring Twenties. While a script does not yet exist, Luhrmann intends to focus on it after "Australia's" awards run. No studio is attached yet.
Fitzgerald's novel of American excess has spawned a Broadway play and multiple films, including Jack Clayton's 1974 pic starring Robert Redford and scripted by Francis Ford Coppola.
The Robert Redford/Mia Farrow film is a classic. We can't even imagine who would be cast, although we're thinking Jon Hamm. And for Daisy? Well, that's a tougher casting call.
