Perfect Great Gatsby Cast!!!!! For 2008!

Tom Welling as Tom Buchanan? No thanks. Jensen Ackles would make a better Tom, if you're going for the CW types. I think he could pull off racist, former football player bully.

(*spoilers*)

Gatsby - I can see Leonardo Dicaprio in this part, as well (he has the proper intensity and also projects a "not of the manor born" vibe).

Nick - James Mcavoy (as the observer of the piece, I think he'd be excellent in a part where he can look into the world of the super wealthy from the outside and guffaww at their ways. He'd be excellent in the part of a laid-back writer.)

Daisy - Kirsten Dunst (dreamy of disposition and with airy looks, she'd be a perfect Daisy.)

Jordan - Scarlett Johannson (because she's a wise-ass and the golf cheating scene would be hilarious with her in it. I'd also think she'd play well off James Mcavoy.)

Tom - Patrick Wilson (a perfect "great, hulking man", who's looks would nicely fit into the insular, almost incestrial breeding world of that social set from the 1920s.)

Myrtle - Hayley Atwell (she seems to have spunk and energy. She'd probably also like the opportunity to play a less reserved part than those of late.)

Jay Gatsby - Hugh Jackman

Nick Carraway - Casey Affleck

Daisy - Rachel McAdams

Tom Buchanan - Christian Bale

Jordan Baker - Rose Byrne

Wolfsheimer - Gary Oldman

Myrtle Wilson - Emily Blunt

George Wilson - Giovani Ribisi

Owl Eyes - Steve Buscemi

weird scenes inside the gold mine

Thinking, thinking...but some great ideas here...

Tom Buchanan - needs to have the looks of Ben Affleck, the pain-in-the-ass arrogance of Billy Zane and the priviledged class feel of a Rob Lowe/ James Spader/ Alec Baldwin.

Nick - Adrien Brody sounds really terrific but pity he doesn't have that 30s movie star look much ..or does he?

Gatsby - none of the ones mentioned seem perfect but Leonardo would probably get it...people forget that Gatsby was once poor and so would have a certain awkwardness about it all, a bit of a 'loser' really with his obsession with Daisy and his endearing pretentiousness, and is probably intensely attractive and likeable like Redford.

Daisy - a bit of a waif-like princess like Mia Farrow but today, she'd be a combo of Keira Knightly's box office clout and period look, Amy Adam's spunkiness and freshness and all american demeanor, Natalie Portman's beauty and look and the Ohlsen twins' creepy rich girl personas. Vulnerable and callous. Evan Rachel Wood?

Jordon - Emily Blunt

Myrtle - Maggie Gyllenhaal, I suppose...or Emily Blunt.

George Wilson - Ryan Gosling...( I'd love him as Gatsby but don't see him in the role)





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I must say that if you think Gatsby is multifaceted and deep, you must not understand the character very well. He's as shallow as they come.

Naomi Watts is the only one of that bunch that I like, but I agree with Toby Maguire as Nick and Ed Norton would make a great George, but I think at this point in his career, he probably wouldn't take a role that small.

I completely disagree with every actor on your list, except maybe naomi watts.

Put this in your pipe and smoke it.

sorry if someone already said this because i didnt go through the other posts yet but i think christian bale wood be the perfect gatsby

Gatsby: Brad Pitt

Daisy: Elizabeth Banks

Nick:James McAvoy maybe

Jordan: Keira Knightly

Tom: no idea