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Monday
19May2008

Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' Gets a Gorgeous New Trailer

DateMonday, May 19, 2008 at 11:03AM
I've been looking forward to whatever was next from Baz Luhrmann for a long time. After Moulin Rouge!, if I have my chronology straight, he was going to make a flick about Alexander the Great, then shelved it and starting hammering out ideas for what would eventually become Australia.

The film, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, is set in northern Australia prior to World War II. Kidman plays an English aristocrat who inherits an enormous cattle ranch. She's forced to work with the rough and tumble Jackman when cattle barons try to take her land.

So, yeah, it's a Baz Luhrmann movie about a cattle drive, basically, and for good measure, there's the Japanese attack on Darwin, Australia thrown in, too. At least Baz isn't resting on his laurels; this is both completely different than anything he's done in the past but, just like everything he's done before, it's highly ambitious.

Australia opens on November 14th. Selfishly, I'd like a Baz Luhrmann movie every year, but I know he can't create the magnificent artistry he does quite so often. But, come on, Baz, give us more than one every seven years.

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