Australia Trailer

This is the first look at a movie that is sure to be fabulous. From the mind of Baz Luhrmann, who brought us Moulin Rouge! and Romeo+Juliet with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio, comes a new film entitled Australia. Starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, the film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man (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.

It is hard to believe that this is only Luhrmann's 4th movie to be written and directed. His previous works are always amazing explorations of artistic showmanship and climactic story lines. Australia doesn't hit theatres until November, but I will anxiously be waiting for opening day.