Faced with the challenge of filming a literary classic, a director can opt for a slavish devotion to the original text or to adapt the source material for a different kind of storytelling.

BRACE YOURSELF: the old, tired argument about books being better than their movie adaptations is about to get a real shot in the arm with the release of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

Lionel Asbo:The State of England

Pat Eddery has got off Terry Mills’ Let Me Try Again to ride the Aidan O’Brien-trained The Great Gatsby in the Vodafone Derby.