Thursday, May 19, 2011

Joel Edgerton is Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby'

Back in early April we heard that Ben Affleck was in talks to play Tom Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1923 seminal classic novel The Great Gatsby. But then word came later that month that the actor would instead step behind the camera again for Argo, the true story of how the CIA used a fake sci-fi film to rescue Americans during the Tehran hostage crisis. Now it appears Luhrmann has finally found someone to replace Affleck with Deadline reporting Joel Edgerton, an actor who's star has been rising since his turn in Animal Kingdom, has landed the pivotal role in the upcoming adaptation.

On Edgerton's addition to The Great Gatsby cast, Luhrmann states:

"In casting Tom one had to find an actor who could credibly be (as Fitzgerald describes him) 'one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New ...

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