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The Great Gatsby Trailer – Leo DiCaprio & Tobey Maguire star in Baz Luhrmann’s movie

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Just yesterday we posted a quartet of character posters for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Now we’ve not just got another one, featuring Carey Mulligan’s Daisy Buchanan, but also a brand new trailer for the film, which suggests this is going to be an incredible looking 3D movie.

The Great Gatsby follows Tobey Maguire’s Nick Carraway, who gets caught up in the high society of Long Island in the 1930s, where he meets the rich, enigmatic Jay Gatsby (Leonardo Dicaprio), and uncovers the desires and machinations of those around him. It’s a great story that’s still waiting for a definitive film version, which hopefully Luhrmann can provide. Elizabeth Debicki, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher also star.

Interesting the trailer gives things a bit of a thriller angle and make Gatsby seem much more outgoingly flamboyant than he is in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, as he’s more of a hidden away mystery to most people in the novel. We’ll be able to see whether Luhrmann’s film is a success when it’s released on May 17th, 2012.

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Great Gatsby Character Posters Debut – Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton & more

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Great-Gatsby-character-poster4If all had gone to the original plan, we’d have been queuing up to watch Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in cinemas now, but then Warner decided to delay the movie from Christmas 2012 to May 2013. It’s an interesting tactic, as while traditionally a big budget literary release gets a winter release to potentially qualify for awards, summer is usually reserved for superheroes and other event movies.

We’ll have to wait and see whether it works, but to help get people in the mood for the F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation, Warner has been releasing character poster for the movie. We don’t have the two main characters yet – Leo DiCaprio’s Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan’s Daisy Buchanan – but as you can see above and below, we do have ones for Tobey Maguire’s Nick Carraway, Elizabeth Debicki’s Jordan Baker and the adulterous couple of Joel Edgerton’s Tom Buchanan and Isla Fisher’s Myrtle Wilson.

The Great Gatsby follows Maguire’s Carraway, who gets caught up in the high society of Long Island in the 1930s, where he meets the rich, enigmatic Jay Gatsby, and uncovers the desires and machinations of those around him. It’s a great story that’s still waiting for a definitive film version, which hopefully Luhrmann can provide.

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Tom Hardy Eyes Another Poaching Tale With DiCaprio & Maguire

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It seems Tom Hardy really has a thing about animal poaching – or rather stopping it. Back in August he came up with an idea for a sprawling global tale about the animal trade, which has been described as being similar to Traffic in its scope and ambition.

Set up at Warner Bros., he teamed up with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire to help shepherd the movie to the screen. However not content with this, Deadline reports Hardy’s now pitched another poaching tale, and once more involved Warner, DiCaprio and Maguire. The studio will develop both films in tandem, although it’s likely only one of them will get made.

At the moment, the global tale is little more than a pitch idea, but the second film is already moving forward, with Up In The Air screenwriter Sheldon Turner hired to turn the idea into a script. This film is about an ex-special forces soldier (Hardy) who’s hired to teach rangers how to fight off poachers in the African wilds. Unsurprisingly he comes to love the land and its animals, and begins to fight back against the people trying to destroy them.

While a global tale could produce something extraordinary – and potentially has a very starry cast lined up – it’s also a bigger risk. The second movie is more straightforward, and it seems Hardy’s so keen to make something about poaching, he’s lining up options for the studio.

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The Details Trailer – Tobey Maguire explores infidelity after a raccoon infestation

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The Details certainly has a good cast, with Tobey Maguire in the lead (who replaced the originally cast James McAvoy), joined by Ray Liotta, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Line, Kerry Washington, Sam Trammell and Dennis Haysbert. Maguire and Banks play a couple whose marriage starts disintegrating when raccoons start burrowing in their garden. Yes, that’s right, this is a movie about the trauma of raccoons. Apparently the animal pests set off a chain of events that ends up with infidelity and murder! The film arrives in the US on November 2nd, but no UK release is set yet.

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Tobey Maguire Gets Animated With Cardboard

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Tobey Maguire has been spreading his wings as a producer with the likes of Seabiscuit, Country Strong, Justice and Rock Of Ages, and now he’s teaming up with 20th Century Fox and Ice Age director Chris Wedge for the animated project Cardboard.

The story is based on Douglas TenNapel’s graphic novel about a young boy who receives only a cardboard box for his birthday from his widowed father. They turn the box into a boxer named Bill, who somehow comes to life. The duo must protect their creation from the neighborhood bully, who has nefarious plans for Bill. Tobey Maguire will primarily be involved as a producer, although he may voice one of the main roles.

Chris Wedge is considering taking the helm, although it doesn’t seem that a screenwriter has been brought on board to write the adapted screenplay yet. No production schedule has been released at this time. (Source: Variety)

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Leo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Tom Hardy To Fight Poaching

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Leo DiCaprio has always been a guys who’s wanted to fight for causes, normally of an environmental bent. Now he’s taking that to the screen, and according to THR, he’s teaming up with Tom Hardy and Tobey Maguire to do so. At the moment they’re just confirmed to produce but may well star too.

It’s Tom Hardy who’s at the front with this one, as he came up with the original idea, based on friends of his who are former military turned anti-poaching fighters in South Africa. The story has been compared in scope to Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, which delved into several different aspects of the war on drugs. This story will cover everything from the poachers in the African jungles to the fashion houses in Paris. The producers are currently searching for a screenwriter to tackle this project.

Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio both starred in Inception for the studio in 2010, while longtime friends Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio star in The Great Gatsby for Warner Bros., arriving in theaters next year, so its a bit of a pals reunion.

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Edward Zwick Takes A Pawn Sacrifice With Tobey Maguire

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Although Ed Zwick sometimes gets a bit of stick for his movies, he’s one of the few directors who’s consistently tried to take important stories to the mainstream, which films like Defiance and Blood Diamond. Now he has signed up to direct Pawn Sacrifice, with Tobey Maguire attached to star and produce.

The project is based on the true story of American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer’s famous world championship match against Russia’s Boris Spassky in 1972. Tobey Maguire will portray Bobby Fischer, with producers currently seeking an actor to play his Russian counterpart. And knowing Zwick, he’ll want to play up how important this became as a symbolic Cold War grudge match.

David Fincher was set to direct back in 2010 but he’s since moved on, with the project having been a bit stuck since then, even though the screenplay is well regarded. Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) wrote the screenplay. It isn’t known when they movie might shoot, but Edward Zwick is also attached to direct The Great Wall for Legendary Pictures, which may well come first. (Source: Deadline)

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Tobey Maguire Up For Z For Zachariah Adaptation

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Many a school kid has had to read Z For Zachariah, which teachers get out seemingly to impress upon kids that starting a nuclear war isn’t a good idea. Now Robert C. O’Brien’s book is getting a movie adaptation, with Craig Zobel (Compliance) directing and Tobey Maguire set to star, according to Variety.

The story is set in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war which has left most land completely uninhabitable. However a teenage girl has managed to survive alone in a sheltered farm micro-climate, which protects her from the radiation. Her solitary life changes when a scientist turns up in a radiation suit, who’s been made sick by drinking from a contaminated stream. As she nurses him to health, she also learns his dark secrets.

Nissar Modi has written the script, which landed on the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays last year. It’s a potentially interesting flick, especially as there are so few characters.

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The Great Gatsby Trailer – DiCaprio, Maguire and Mulligan take on the classic

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When it was announced Baz Luhrmann had gotten the go ahead for a $100 million plus version of The Great Gatsby, many thought Warner Bros was insane. But not only is it good Oscar bait and a potential moneyspinner but the studio also realises that as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book is a classic taught in nearly all US schools, it will keep pulling in cash for years to come. Now the first trailer has arrived, suggested this will be a truly glossy, impressive looking film, full of Luhrmann’s trademark visual panache.

The Great Gatsby 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). It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles. The film hits cinemas at Christmas.

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First Official Great Gatsby Pics Released

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It’s a full year until Baz Luhrmann’s 3D take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby hits cinemas, but the first official shots from the film have now been released (see them above and below), featuring Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.

It all looks wonderfully flappery, but with a budget over over $100 million, you’d hope it’d look good. It does seem to be an awful lot to spend on a period piece in the current climate, but many feel Warner Bros. is looking to the future with the movie. While The Great Gatsby is seen as one of the great American novels, the definitive film version is yet to be made (the closest is the rather stuffy 70s version with Robert Redford). If they can get it right, Warner will be making money out of the film for decades, especially as it’s a core text for most US schools, and so spending the money now should pay off in the future – and indeed could well pay off now.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The Great Gatsby follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway 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, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.’

And if you fancy making a pic of yourself cuddling Leo DiCaprio, we’ve started the photoshop work for you at the bottom of this post.

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