This is an tasty piece of pre-production news which could be a potential game-changer for the world of 3D. During an electronics convention in Las Vegas (on a panel with fellow filmmakers Michael Mann and Oliver Stone) Aussie auteur Baz Luhrmann revealed that he has workshopped his upcoming project The Great Gatsby in 3D. The three directors were there to discuss the benefits of Blu-ray when Luhrmann mentioned his dalliances with the format.

We know that 3D is now being utilised by directors who initially, weren’t perhaps the most obvious advocators of the technology (Martin Scorsese’s next feature Hugo Cabret is currently filming in this style), but to even consider doing The Great Gatsby that way would open the medium up to a genre which, in turn, could finally see 3D become completely integrated into all Hollywood products, and not just how it exists now as the preserve of fantasy-based features (don’t forget that Cabret is a kid’s film which exists within a dream-like, otherworldly setting).

The article (by The Hollywood Reporter) does mention however, that Luhrmann has yet to decide whether he’ll used 3D to shoot his adaptation of the 1920’s-set literary classic. Nevertheless, this does pose an intriguing development for a format which has only gained serious momentum in a little over a year.