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New Photos Show Great Gatsby Cast Going 1920s NY... In Australia

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From the 1974 adaption starring Robert Redford

The Great Gatsby is currently filming in... Australia, and photos have surfaced of the cast getting their 1920s New York on down under. The latest film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic is being directed by Baz Luhrmann (who is filming it in 3-D), and stars Leonardo Di Caprio (Jay Gatsby), Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway), Isla Fisher (Myrtle Wilson), and Carey Mulligan (Daisy Buchanan). Other cast members include Joel Edgerton (Tom Buchanan), Jason Clarke (George Wilson), and Elizabeth Debicki (Jordan Baker).

Over the weekend, DiCaprio's girlfriend Blake Lively (who auditioned for the part of Daisy) flew to town to celebrate her birthday at the "mansion" DiCaprio has rented for filming, you know, to channel Mr. Gatsby.

The 1974 adaptation was filmed in Newport, Rhode Island, England, Massachusetts, and New York City. No word yet on if they'll film any scenes here... but either way, hopefully in the scene where Nick Carraway declares to Jay Gatsby, "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world"—he won't call it the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.

More photos of the new production can be seen here.

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  • wonderchimp5

    3D? you've got to be fucking kidding me.

  • NeuYorker

    Maybe they'll have the theme music played on a didgeridoo and substitute Fosters for Dom Pérignon. Cheers mate!

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