Here is an interesting turn for Baz Luhrmann. He’s looking at taking on America’s Jazz Age.

The director of Australia purchased the rights to “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tome of the Roaring Twenties. Even thought a script does not exist yet, Luhrmann plans to center his creative talent on the classic story after Australia’s awards run. No studio is attached yet.

If you are a movie history buff, you know that Fitzgerald’s novel of American excess has spawned a Broadway play and multiple films, including Jack Clayton’s 1974 film starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterson, Bruce Dern and Karen Black and scripted by Francis Ford Coppola.