Australia
March 14th 2008 11:17
Australia is an upcoming period epic film directed by Baz Luhrmann. Written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie with Ronald Harwood, Australia stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The story takes place during the bombing of Darwin in Australia during World War II. Production will take place in Sydney, Darwin, Kununurra, and Bowen in Australia. The movie will be released on August 15, 2008 in Australia.
Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Hugh Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
The official trailer is still to be released, but a fan made preview below is pretty good.
This is the "not quite Australia" trailer!
Cast:
Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who inherits the cattle station Faraway Downs in Australia.
Hugh Jackman as an Australian drover who helps Lady Sarah Ashley move the cattle across the property.
Essie Davis as Katherine
David Wenham as Neil Fletcher, a station manager who plans to take Faraway Downs from Lady Sarah Ashley.
Jack Thompson as Kipling Flynn, an alcoholic accountant who enjoys a luxurious lifestyle.
Bryan Brown as King Carney, a cattle baron who owns much of the land in northern Australia.
Brandon Walters as the drover's assistant Nullah, a young boy who helps drive the cattle for Lady Sarah Ashley.
David Gulpilil as King George, a magic tribal elder.
Other Info:
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Produced by: Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Knapman, G. Mac Brown
Written by: Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood, Stuart Beattie, Richard Flanagan
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: Australia - August 15th, 2008; USA - November 14th, 2008
Budget: $120 million
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Australia (2008 film).
The official trailer is still to be released, but a fan made preview below is pretty good.
This is the "not quite Australia" trailer!
Cast:
Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who inherits the cattle station Faraway Downs in Australia.
Hugh Jackman as an Australian drover who helps Lady Sarah Ashley move the cattle across the property.
Essie Davis as Katherine
David Wenham as Neil Fletcher, a station manager who plans to take Faraway Downs from Lady Sarah Ashley.
Jack Thompson as Kipling Flynn, an alcoholic accountant who enjoys a luxurious lifestyle.
Bryan Brown as King Carney, a cattle baron who owns much of the land in northern Australia.
Brandon Walters as the drover's assistant Nullah, a young boy who helps drive the cattle for Lady Sarah Ashley.
David Gulpilil as King George, a magic tribal elder.
Other Info:
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Produced by: Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Knapman, G. Mac Brown
Written by: Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood, Stuart Beattie, Richard Flanagan
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date: Australia - August 15th, 2008; USA - November 14th, 2008
Budget: $120 million
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Australia (2008 film).
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Comment by Lilla
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I am really looking forward to this one, thanks for the buzz....
Please excuse my ignorance, but how big is Maryland ... going to check the map ... I am glad to see Nicole back in Oz, it agrees with her and she looks better... it is Hugh who looks like he is doing a Clint Eastwood impersenation, isn't it?
*chuckle* really, this one is much awaited in my household and I hope to God it is half as good as the TV mini-movie Dirt Water Dynasty and not an attempt to make the Australian outback look like a Mid-west, western (not that there is anything wrong with a mid-west western being in the mid-west of the States ... but there is just something terribly wrong to me, in trying to make the Australian outback seem that way, as it has a different vibe altogether) ...
Time will tell.
Lilla ...
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