Baz Luhrmann’s long awaited dazzling adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great novel, THE GREAT GATSBY, will open the 66th Festival de Cannes this year, on May 15.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Isla Fisher, the movie is scored by Jay-Z and features modern hip hop and r&b songs to a 1920s New York. The movie tells the story of Jay Gatsby and his tragic love for Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan.)
“It is a great honor for all those who have worked on The Great Gatsby to open the Cannes Film Festival,” Director Baz Luhrmann stated. “We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, STRICTLY BALLROOM, was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.”
THE GREAT GATSBY will open in theatres on May 10, but until then check out the trailer below. And if you haven’t done so already, go check out the awesome novel, too!