Filming for director Baz Luhrman’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby” with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role has gotten underway in Australia. For reasons that completely elude me, Luhrman has decided to shoot one of my favorite books in 3D. This makes me nervous.

MSNBCT has some early pix of DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as the eternal heartbreaker Daisy Buchanan.

Here’s the pix: