Jay-Z with wife Beyonce. Source:
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph reports
His hit tune No Church In The Wild provided the backdrop for the first trailer, now rapper Jay-Z has announced he isn't just lending a song or two to the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.
The rapper is reportedly hard at work composing the upcoming film's entire original score with another artist, The Bullitts.
The latter broke the news on Twitter with the post: "Jay-Z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC 'The Great Gatsby. It is too DOPE for words!"
The trailer, released back in September and featuring music that contrasts with the period epic, indicates Luhrmann is planning on a modern musical take on Gatsby - similar to his treatment of Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge.
It's not the first time Luhrmann has teamed up with a hip-hop star, having partnered with Missy Elliott on a previous project.
"The great thing about the hip-hop folk is that they are fearless and culturally blind," Luhrmann told the London Guardian in 2007.
"I can be with a rapper called Canibus and he will tell me that he's going to take the soundtrack from Titanic, sample and make a song out of it.
"Their ability to steal from culture without judgment, without a decision about what is right or wrong or good or bad - it's just, 'Does it affect you emotionally or not'.
"That blindness to pretension gets me going. I would like to think that, cinematically, that's the road we're going down."
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