I wasn’t sure the day would ever come that I’d start to get excited about an upcoming Baz Luhrmann film, but Australia starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman is starting to look like it might be pretty good. We showed you a few pics last month, but the teaser trailer was just released and it gives us a much better idea of what the film is going to look like. It looks beautiful.
Official Plot Synopsis:
A romantic action-adventure set in northern Australia prior to World War II, Australia 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 2000 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. With his new film, Luhrmann is painting on a vast canvas, creating a cinematic experience that brings together romance, drama, adventure and spectacle.
An interesting tidbit of trivia is that Heath Ledger was reportedly set to star in this film but ultimately dropped out in order to play The Joker in The Dark Knight. Russell Crowe was also attached to the film but ended up leaving during pre-production. I’m sure Hugh Jackman will do just fine (does he look like Clint Eastwood in the picture above to anyone else?), but it’s interesting to think what the film might have been like with either Ledger (in his last full role) or Crowe in the lead. What do you think? Does this film look interesting to you?
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia hits theaters on November 14th 2008.
Maybe its me, but Nicole Kidman in a flick is an almost avoid… Hugh looks great in this, but she always seems so fake in movies like she is trying so hard…I dunno, maybe just me…
Nah, I’m sort of with you Cap’n. She’s been in so many of these kinds of movies that it’s hard to buy it anymore. I feel like I already saw her and Tom Cruise do something similar in Far and Away.
I’m with you Cap’n; Nicole Kidman = Mediocrity.
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I really liked Far and Away. But I do see what you’re saying. Still looks interesting, though.
No, I liked Far And Away too, but that’s why this one doesn’t look as appealing…because I already saw it
Well, not exactly, but you know what I mean.