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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #93. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby

Here are the list of pros: the roaring 20s, classic novel, great cast, award season conflicts (Dicaprio will go head to head again with his performance in Django Unchained), holiday release date, bootleg and a filmmaker in dire need of a career boost especially after the colossal bore known as Australia.

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#93. The Great Gatsby

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer(s): Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
Producers: Luhrmann, Lucy Fisher, Catherine Knapman, Catherine Martin and Douglas Wick
Distributor: Warner Bros.

The Gist: Based on the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published in 1925, this follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton)…(more)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Edgerton, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Tobey Maguire, Callan McAuliffe, Gemma Ward, Amitabh Bachchan and Jason Clarke

List Worthy Reasons…: Here are the list of pros: the roaring 20s, classic novel, great cast, award season conflicts (Dicaprio will go head to head again with his performance in Django Unchained), holiday release date, bootleg and a filmmaker in dire need of a career boost especially after the colossal bore known as Australia.

Release Date/Status?: Opens wide on December 25th.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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