Gatsby’s Girl

We all thought Blake Lively had it in the bag....

Casting Miss Daisy Buchanan – the female lead in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which Baz (Moulin Rouge!) Luhrmann is remaking – has zeroed in on Carey Mulligan instead.

The coveted part has been offered to the An Education Oscar nominee, who’ll be joining Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s playing Jay Gatsby, and, maybe, Tobey Maguire, who’s rumored for the role of Gatsby’s friend (and Daisy’s second cousin), the story’s narrator Nick Carraway, on the project.

Mulligan’s name was one of many A-List-y names that had been thrown into the mix. Evidently, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Amanda Seyfried, Keira Knightley, Michelle Williams, Lively and her The Town co-star Rebecca Hall were all considered for the part.

I would’ve considered Claire Danes, too – it would have been beyond to see her reunited with her Romeo + Juliet director and counterpart, no?

Photo: HollywoodLife.com.