Joel Edgerton will play the role of Tom Buchanan in director Baz Luhrmann film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Deadline.com reported. He joins a cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio (Gatsby), Tobey Maguire (Nick Carraway), Carey Mulligan (Daisy Buchanan), Isla Fisher (Myrtle) and Elizabeth Debicki (Jordan Baker). Luhrmann's update of the classic novel "will be made for Warner Bros, which will release it in 3D."
"In casting Tom one had to find an actor who could credibly be (as Fitzgerald describes him) 'one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven,' had five-star acting chops and in the big dramatic showdown scenes between Gatsby and Tom, hold the screen against Leonardo DiCaprio, in the appropriate age group," said Luhrmann. "Any wonder, it has been a long and thorough journey. The simple truth is that Joel came into our rehearsal space in New York and fulfilled all of the above criteria, and then some."