It has been confirmed that Jay-Z and Jeymes Samuel of The Bullitts will write the upcoming score for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.
Baz Luhrmann is well known for his over-the-top, often arresting, yet polarizing films, and The Great Gatsy is looking to be no different. With an impressive cast that features Leonardo Dicaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, with Jason Clarke, Isla Fisher and Joel Edgerton rounding out the cast, there is clearly talent involved. Add in a score from Jay-Z and Jeymes Samuel, the only question is whether the film will be able to harness all this talent to do good.
Samuel took to Twitter yesterday to confirm the news, writing:
Jay-Z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC The Great Gatsby! It is too DOPE for words!
— THE BULLITTS (@TheBullitts) December 30, 2012
There was perhaps a bit of a hint towards this when the last trailer for The Great Gatsby arrived and prominently featured a track from Jay-Z and Kayne West’s Watch the Throne. In typical Luhrmann fashion, he appears to be going a more modern route with telling the F. Scott Fitzgerald tale, but it’s the 3D perhaps above the scoring duo that is the most worrisome. Jay-Z and Samuel are nearly guaranteed to deliver an exciting score, as the degree of difficulty in implementing 3D nicely into a film is likely much greater than incorporating a solid score.
We’ll just have to wait and see, as The Great Gatsby was delayed from a 2012 release, and is set to hit theaters on May 10, 2013.
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby’s nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.