Great Gatsby turns into a movie-making marathon

Leonardo Di Caprio shooting scenes from The Great Gatsby in Sydney. Picture: Brad Hunter Source: Herald Sun

Amy Harris, The Herald Sun, reports

It was a wrap. But now it's not. Slated to finish filming just before Christmas, The Great Gatsby continued its marathon shoot in Sydney yesterday after bad weather plagued the production.

Grabbing whatever slivers of sunshine were offered up by Mother Nature, director Baz Luhrmann and his A-list cast assembled at White Bay power station to shoot several more key scenes with star Leonardo DiCaprio - seen striding around the set in a powder-pink suit - joined by Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan.

The prolonged shoot has sparked rumours as to just how much Luhrmann's $120 million budget - propped up by a sizeable grant from the NSW Government - has blown out, with one well-placed source estimating the film's delay is coming at a cost of up to $1 million a day.

A rep for the film declined to confirm the rumoured blowout, though an on-set source said the $1 million-a-day figure was "incorrect".