More than a decade after the release of Baz Luhrmann’s blockbuster film Australia, the director has expanded the film into a six-part series, scheduled for release in winter 2022.
Director Baz Luhrmann plans to expand his film Australia into a six-part series.
Moulin Rouge! The director is set to expand and reimagine the 2008 epic adventure film starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman with the miniseries Faraway Downs.
“I originally thought about how I could flip the idea of a Gone with the Wind-style epic and use romance and epic drama to highlight the role and painful scars of Indigenous peoples. “It will go down in Australian history for a stolen generation,” Luhrmann said in a statement, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter reported. “The Australian movie has a life of its own, but this story had a different story, with different layers, nuances and even different plot twists that the episodic format allowed us to explore. Painted from the same material, Faraway Downs is a new Australian variation for audiences to discover.
The project will be assembled from footage Luhrmann shot for the original film, and will feature a different ending and a new soundtrack.
At the time of the original film’s release, Luhrmann revealed that he had shot three endings.
Similar to the movie, the TV show portrays Lady Sarah Ashley, a British aristocrat played by Kidman. After her husband’s death, she inherits the Australian ranch Faraway Downs. Jackman played a cattle driver who helps her protect the ranch.
Craig Erwich, president of Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment, said of the project: “Buzz is one of the world’s great writer-storytellers, so we’re revisiting ‘Faraway Downs’ and his great film ‘Australia.’ It has been a revelatory and unique adventure to experience this in this unique new episodic format.”
Faraway Downs is scheduled to premiere on Hulu and Disney+ in late 2022.
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