Carey Mulligan alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the new version of 'The Great Gatsby'

After directing one of the greatest fiascos of 2008, the epic romantic drama 'Australia', Baz Luhrmann returns to the fray. His new project is a new adaptation of the novel 'The Great Gatsby' F. Scott Fitzgerald, for which already has players: Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan construed to Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. It also assumes that Tobey Maguire Who acts as producer, will speak in the film, giving life to Nick Carraway, narrator and best friend of Gatsby.

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Mulligan, Now a star thanks to his phenomenal work in 'An Education', has recently joined the production after passing a test casting, where the photo was taken you have above, made by Luhrmann himself and distributed in the network start generating buzz for the film. Earliest that could debut in early 2012, as DiCaprio have to shoot first 'Hoover', commanded by Clint Eastwood, and that also has another project on the serial murderer H.H. Holmes.

Originally published in 1925, "The Great Gatsby ' ('The Great Gatsby ") revolves around Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who is only moving an obsession to recover a childhood sweetheart, but Daisy is now a girl who is part of a frivolous society and boring itself, a charming creature, and also harmful. As you know, the work has already been filmed several times, being the most famous adaptation he directed Jack Clayton in 1974, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, the film won two Oscars, best costumes and soundtrack.

PD: Mulligan is rumored to once again be nominated for an Oscar in safety, for the second consecutive year, thanks to his work 'Never leave me "(" Never Let Me Go').