The cast and crew of ''The Great Gatsby'' got on an early holiday due to a minor injury on set. Who was the unlucky man? Director Baz Luhrmann.

"It takes two to make an accident," says a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. For Baz Luhrmann, only one person had to be suffer a minor accident on set and it was him.

The director has indeed given a whole new meaning to the word "Cut!" Luhrmann suffered a minor head injury when he accidentally hit his head on a camera crane during filming a scene from the movie last Thursday.

"We were on quite a cramped set and he was ducking under the crane," says Luhrmann's colleage Anton Monsted in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. "He struck his head on the weights on the end of the camera crane. He split open his head and we had to get the doctor."

Blame the cramped set for the unlikely incident but thanks to that injury, all cast members and crew were allowed to go home a day early. Along with that head injury there were no other setbacks to filming "The Great Gatsby" and hopefully production would wrap up by the first months of 2012.

This film directed by Luhrmann expects to be another hit just like his "Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo and Juliet." The latter also starred Leonardo DiCaprio, who along with Carey Mulligan and Toby Maguire are in the latest film adaptation of "The Great Gatsby."

"It's very nerve-wracking," said Mulligan in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "I know how much the book means, especially in America. And everyone has their own view on what the book means, which makes it even more nerve-wracking."

The film will be out next Christmas, meaning fans will have plenty of time to read the book before watching it on the big screen.

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