The Great Gatsby - Trailer - NMETV Latest Music Videos and Clips | The Great Gatsby - Official Trailer 2. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby trailer: Watch Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan bring the classic Fitzgerald novel to life. (VIDEO) The Great Gatsby Trailer Arrives Online. First GREAT GATSBY Movie Stills Featuring Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio & Carey Mulligan. Production for Warner Bros' upcoming 3D adaptation of the popular fictional novel The Great Gatsby is currently underway in Australia with Baz Luhrmann in the director's chair. The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. Leonardo DiCaprio is playing the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby opposite Tobey Maguire as the narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway.