Baz Luhrmann has used Jack White’s cover of U2’s ‘Love Is Blindness’ for his first trailer for the remake of ‘The Great Gatsby’.
Jack White. image by Ros O'Gorman.
White recorded the U2 ‘Achtung Baby’ cover for a tribute album in 2011.
The trailer also features Jay-Z and Kanye West ‘No Church In The Wild’.
Luhrmann filmed ‘The Great Gatsby’ in Sydney with Leonardo DiCapro as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway. Filming began on September 5, 2011 and was completed in December 22, 2011. Some addition shots were added in January 2102.
The Great Gatsby will be released on Christmas Day, 2012.
‘The Great Gatsby’ is based on the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lurhmann had originally planned to film the movie in New York where it is set but moved the production to the Fox Studios lot in Sydney.
See the full soundtrack tracklisting here
Watch the trailer here.
