Hollywood Film Rule #17-M: When your movie is about mansions and shit, you really need your movie’s music to be composed by someone who knows a thing or two about mansions and shit.
Enter Jay-Z, a man who has so many mansions that he probably had to built a mansion to put them all in. According to Pitchfork, Jay is currently working hard alongside Jeymes Samuel of The Bullitts on the score to the upcoming film adaptation (directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan) of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most F. Scott Fitzgerald-y novel, The Great Gatsby. As Samuel himself tweeted recently, the pair have been “working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #CLASSIC The Great Gatsby! It is too DOPE for words!”
Given the fact that Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild” has already been used in one of the film’s trailers and the fact that Jay himself embodies a pretty badass rags-to-riches, American-dream kinda thing, his involvement seems pretty fitting. Or maybe he just got the job because Gatsby’s first name is also Jay and Jay-Z is the first person anyone thought of? Either way!Gatsby hits theaters this coming May. Let’s all go see it because we like Jay-Z and not because the 1920’s is a thing right now.
• Jay-Z: http://www.jayzonline.com
• The Bullitts: http://www.thebullitts.com/about.html
• The Great Gatsby: http://thegreatgatsby.warnerbros.com