2.Baz Luhrmann said the Gatsby mansion was actually his old high school in Australia along with some computer graphics.
3.DiCaprio wanted to play Jay Gatsby because he was drawn to "the idea of a man who came from absolutely nothing, who created himself solely from his own imagination."
4.A picture of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, can be seen hanging on the wall in the background of the apartment Tom shares with Myrtle.
5.There are shots of the Empire State Building under construction. The film is set in 1922, but the Empire State Building construction began in 1930.
6.The phrase "Ad Finem Fidelis" can be seen on one of the gates at Gatsby's mansion. This is Latin for "faithful to the end."
7.In the voiceover for the trailer, Tobey Maguire quotes passages from My Lost City, another of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works.
8.The phrase "old sport" is said 55 times throughout the film.
10.For this scene (filmed in the Blue Mountains), the crew purchased 100,000 liters of water from a nearby dam to create synthetic rain. Apparently it continued to rain for three days after filming.
11.Ben Affleck was originally cast as Tom Buchanan but had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts.
12.The Perkins Sanitarium (not featured in the novel) is named after F. Scott Fitzgerald's editor, Maxwell Perkins.
13.The movie was distributed to cinemas with the fake title "North Shore Romance."
14.Baz Luhrmann has a five-second cameo as a waiter.
15.The building used for Gatsby's mansion is Sydney's St. Patrick's Seminary, where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were married in 2006.
