According to Heat Vision, Confessions of a Shopaholic star Isla Fisher is in negotiations to join Baz Luhrmann‘s 3D epic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby.
Rumors are circulating that the Australian redhead will portray Myrtle Wilson, “wife of George B. Wilson and the mistress of Tom Buchanan.” Hollywood Reporter expands with “Myrtle [is] a married woman having an affair with Buchanan. She is later killed by a speeding car, an even that leads to the book’s tragic ending.”
She’s joining Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, a rumored Hayley Atwell (Pillars of the Earth) as Jordan Baker, and no longer Ben Affleck as Tom. We recently reported that Affleck was in talks, but Deadline reveals that the Oscar winner is already committed to direct Argo, “about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, in the Middle East.”
The website also explains that “Luhrmann is looking for another actor to play him [Tom]. Word is he’s trying to get Australian actors for some of the lead roles because it helps the film’s financial situation.”
Collider provides this in-depth look at Fitzgerald’s literary classic: “The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1925), stand as the supreme achievement of his career. T.S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the ‘first step’ American fiction had taken since Henry James; H.L. Mencken praised ‘the charm and beauty of the writing,’ as well as Fitzgerald’s sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald’s ‘best work’ thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times remarked, ‘gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,’ it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, or magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.”
Movie Buzzers recently revealed that Fisher has also signed up for the road trip comedy Desperados, but it looks like there will be no scheduling conflict at this time, especially since Myrtle is a supporting role. The Great Gatsby is set for production in late summer, but until then we’re waiting to hear who else will join this all-star cast. Check back to our previous articles on casting news on this developing project!
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