It's the most highly-anticipated film of the year and it's going to be
big — or so says the mastermind behind
Moulin Rouge!,
Romeo + Juliet and now
Australia, Baz Luhrmann.
"It's high-comedy, high-tragedy, tears, laughter, costumes," Luhrmann has said of his own epic. "Everything big — big actors, big landscape."
So what's it all about? Well you've heard about it, you've read about it and now as the release of Baz Luhrmann's Australia looms near, we give you the lowdown on what we can expect from the biggest movie release of the year.
With a stellar cast including Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown and Ben Mendelsohn, Australia brings to life the epic adventure set before World War II, telling the story of Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman), an English aristocrat who inherits a massive cattle station, and an Australian drover (Jackman) who manages to captivate her heart.
When cattle barons from England conspire to take Lady Ashley's land, she teams up with the drover to drive her herd of 2000 cattle across the vast unforgiving country — only to experience the Japanese bombing of Darwin.
Set to take on some of Hollywood's biggest epics — Gone With the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia and Out of Africa — get ready to experience the adventure of Baz Luhrmann's Australia when it hits cinemas on November 26.
