Baz Luhrmann’s 3-D take on The Great Gatsby, which was originally set to open Christmas Day but will now be released May 10, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan,Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher, and Joel Edgerton. The first character posters acknowledge the film’s famous literary roots with quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 book about two of its main supporting characters. In the first picture, check out Edgerton as Tom Buchanan alongside Fitzgerald’s passage about “careless people”:
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Here is Fisher as Myrtle with her “immediately perceptible vitality” on display:
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If the trailer is anything to go by, this adaptation, by the man who directed Moulin Rouge!, promises to be a glitzier extravaganza than even the lavish Roaring Twenties New York of the book.
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