update of _The Great Gatsby_, the actor won't be taking part in the movie
adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald literary classic. Luhrmann offered
Affleck the role in early April and courted him hard. The problem was, the
film will shoot in Australia, and the scheduling just didn't match up on
_Argo_. Affleck is committed to�direct that film, about the 1979 Iran hostage
crisis, in the Middle East. They tried to work it out but ultimately couldn't.
So far, Luhrmann has commitments from Leonardo DiCaprio to play Jay Gatsby,
Carey Mulligan to play Daisy Buchanan, and Tobey Maguire to play Nick
Carraway. Warner Bros is in talks with Isla Fisher to play Myrtle, the wife of
a gas-station owner who is cheating with Buchanan. Luhrmann is looking for
another actor to play him. Word is he's trying to get Australian actors for
some of the roles because it helps the film's financial situation. Luhrmann,
who wrote the script with Craig Pearce, is producing with his Luhrmann/Bazmark
Films partners Catherine Martin and Catherine Knapman, and Red Wagon partners
Doug Wick and Lucy ...
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