Carey Mulligan is Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby"

Baz Luhrmann has officially cast Carey Mulligan to play female lead Daisy Buchanan in an upcoming adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby. Also starring is Leonardo DiCaprio who will play the main lead of Jay Gatsby, and it's rumored that Tobey Maguire will play Gatsby's friend, Nick Carraway.

I have a little itty bit of a girl crush on Carey because I think she is such a fantastic, understated actress. And you know what? She's just such a lady. Not too many of those out there in Hollywood today. I think she'd be perfect as Daisy. I can't wait to see how this turns out with Baz at the helm. It's very appropriate, actually. The Great Gatsby is such an iconic, classic literary piece, and the era and social climate it takes place in will look phenomenal on camera. Can't wait for Carey!

Photo credit: Deadline Hollywood. Taken 11/2/10 in NYC during auditions.

Liam Neeson's "Unknown" Trailer & Casting in "The Hangover 2"

Check out the trailer for Liam Neeson's new movie, Unknown, opening February 18, 2011. It's a movie that is very much in the same vein as the sleeper hit, Taken, in which he also starred. If you haven't seen Taken, then maybe you don't know that Liam is fierce as all hell, and he still kicks ass at his age. Unknown is another thriller set in Europe and it stars Liam Neeson, January Jones, Diane Kruger, and Frank Langella. Neeson plays a man who wakes up from a car crash while on vacation with his wife (Jones), and discovers that his identity has been stolen and his wife apparently no longer recognizes him. Kruger and Langella help him uncover what really happened to him and the people behind the conspiracy. From what I see from the trailer, it's Taken 2, but I'll still probably see it because Liam Neeson is a man not to be messed with, and when Liam wants you to watch a movie in which he kicks ass in (literally), then you do it.

Check out the trailer below.

More Liam Neeson news on this fine Monday! Liam Neeson has replaced Mel Gibson in The Hangover 2. Mel was cast in a cameo role of a tattoo artist in the film but after several uproars in the cast (most notably, Zach Galifianakis, who hinted in an interview earlier this month that he was in "deep protest" on the set of a movie he's currently shooting, aka The Hangover 2), he's been fired. No shocker, considering the bad press Gibson has been receiving as of late, including his spews of anti-semitism, and more recently, the violent, misognystic, conversations that have leaked between him and ex-girlfriend, Oksana Gregorieva.