Already a success in the hip-hop world, music superstar Jay-Z is tackling a new world: the movies.
The coming film of the classic book "The Great Gatsby" will feature a musical score written by the 14-time Grammy Award-winning artist, according to Jeymes Samuel, better known as songwriter-producer The Bullitts.
The Bullitts posted the news on his Twitter account, tweeting, "Jay-Z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC The Great Gatsby! It is too DOPE for words!"
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 BULLITTS (@TheBullitts) December 30, 2012
Jay-Z's hit song, "No Church in the Wild" was teased in the upcoming trailer for "The Great Gatsby," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire, and due out in theaters in May.
The film is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, which tells of eccentric billionaire Jay Gatsby, a billionaire from the Midwest living in Long Island, N.Y. in the backdrop of the Roaring 1920s, who has mob connections and an obsessive infatuation with a young girl in her 20s, Daisy Buchanan, played by Carey Mulligan.
"The Great Gatsby" will be directed by critically-acclaimed director Baz Luhrmann, who is reportedly a big fan of Jay-Z, and has earned a reputation for his use of music in films such as "Moulin Rouge."
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