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Here is an interesting turn for Baz Luhrmann. He’s looking at taking on America’s Jazz Age.

The director of Australia purchased the rights to “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tome of the Roaring Twenties. Even thought a script does not exist yet, Luhrmann plans to center his creative talent on the classic story after Australia’s awards run. No studio is attached yet.

If you are a movie history buff, you know that Fitzgerald’s novel of American excess has spawned a Broadway play and multiple films, including Jack Clayton’s 1974 film starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterson, Bruce Dern and Karen Black and scripted by Francis Ford Coppola.

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Here is a quick but informative interview by io9 with Baz Luhrmann toying with the idea of filming a classic futuristic tale. Luhrmann at the Australia premiere acknowledged he’d contemplated switching from movies set in the past to creating stories set in the future. Baz believes the future has gotten a bit old-fashioned, but he’s got some ideas for spicing it up.

“Actually there are a few future-projects…. I think if you address it you have to address it in a completely fresh way. It’s become a bit old fashioned. I mean the future has become old fashioned. Now is so much more consumed with it now than we ever have been before.”

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