Who co-wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film adaptation with Baz Luhrmann?

Craig Pearce co-wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby with director Baz Luhrmann.

Pearce and Luhrmann had already collaborated on several literary and musical films, including Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!. Their Gatsby screenplay adapts F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel for a modern cinematic audience while retaining its central story of wealth, longing, and reinvention in the Jazz Age.

The film makes several notable changes to Fitzgerald’s narrative. Nick Carraway frames his memories from a sanitarium, and the screenplay expands or reshapes certain scenes involving Gatsby, Daisy, and Jordan Baker. These changes helped give the film a more dramatic, visually expansive structure.

A common mix-up is confusing Pearce with Fitzgerald, the novel’s author, or Francis Ford Coppola, who wrote the screenplay for the 1974 adaptation. The 2013 version stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway.