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Course You Cannes!" Why F. Scott Fitzgerald Fans Should Love Leonardo
DiCaprio as Gatsby"
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In 1926, F. Scott
Fitzgerald and his family were in France, spending most of their time on the
Riviera where Baz Luhrmann's movie of The
Great Gatsby will
open the Cannes Film Festival tonight. From far away, Fitzgerald followed
closely the stage adaptation of Gatsby that Owen Davis was
preparing for Broadway's Ambassador Theatre. Davis had won a Pulitzer Prize for
drama in 1923 for Icebound, but didn't even come
close for his Gatsbydramatization.
Compared to the novel, the
play's terrible -- how can you like a version of Gatsby absent the Valley of Ashes, and in
which George Wilson is the Buchanans' chauffeur? However, the play did get good
reviews for James Rennie's performance as Gatsby. Rennie, a Canadian-born
actor, is still best known as Dorothy Gish's husband, and remembered for
smaller roles like Frank MacIntyre in Now, Voyager. He should be famous
for being the first Gatsby. The New Yorker termed
the play excellent and attractive, with Gatsby's death as the most intense
dramatic moment then on Broadway. Rennie was shot onstage in front of his
Daisy, Florence Eldredge, and told a newspaper interviewer that it was his own
choice to walk toward Daisy as he was dying, smiling because her face was the
last thing he'd ever see -- exactly as Gatsby would want it. Keep reading here.
Just one month after Armie
Hammer entered talks to join Tom Cruise in Warner Bros. adaptation of the
1960s TV series The Man from
U.N.C.L.E. with
director Guy Ritchie at the helm, the production will be looking for a new
leading man yet again. Deadline has word that Cruise has chosen to depart the
film due to timing issues with his producing and starring in Mission: Impossible 5, which he hopes to
shoot before the end of the year for Paramount Pictures. Honestly, despite the
differences in the premises, story and style of the two TV series adaptations,
the projects seemed a little too similar for Cruise to star in both. Keep Reading.
Just last month we learned The Spectacular Now and Smashed director James Ponsoldt was attached to direct Rodham, a film about politician Hillary
Rodham Clinton's early years during the Watergate
scandal in the 1970s. The script
comes from Young Il Kim, made the 2012
Black List and is now in
development Temple Hill Entertainment. Producers intended to get an actress
attached as the lead before getting support from studios and independent
financiers, and now some names have surfaced for the lead including Scarlett Johansson, Jessica
Chastain, Reese Witherspoon and Amanda Seyfried. Click here to keep reading.
New
Dark Elf Photos in 'Thor: The Dark World' + Official Site Launch
Now we can finally get a look at the Dark Elves! After set photos a few months ago revealed
fully-costumed Dark Elves, official photos have finally appeared in the latest
issue of Empire magazine. There are two clear shots scanned online that show
the elves, including Christopher Eccleston as
their leader Malekith. The first
teaser trailer was debuted a few
weeks ago and barely had any glimpse of these guys at all. In addition to this
debut, the official Marvel website for Thor: The Dark World has launched, and includes a few nice
shots of Chris Hemsworth as
Thor, Natalie Portman as
Jane Foster, plus Anthony Hopkins as
Odin.
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