'Australia' the movie writer, producer and director Baz Luhrmann teams again with Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, The Hours, The Others) and leading man Hugh Jackman (The Prestige, The Fountain and the X-Men Trilogy).
Joining Kidman and Jackman is a who's who of Australian acting talent including Australian acting legends Ray Barrett, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson and Bill Hunter who will star alongside David Wenham, Ben Mendelsohn, John Jarrett, Kerry Walker, Barry Otto, David Gulpilil and David Ngoombujarra.
Other key cast members include Matthew Whittet, Arthur Dignam, Bruce Spence, Tony Barry, Sean Hall, Essie Davis, Eddie Baroo, Nathin Butler, Jacek Koman, Sandy Gore, Yuen Wah (Kung Fu Hustle) from China and indigenous cast Lillian Crombie, Ursula Yovich (Jindabyne), Angus Pilauki, Crusoe Kurrdal, Jamie Gulpilil, (Rabbit Proof Fence, The Missing), and 11 year old Broome boy Brandon Walters, in his feature film debut.
Walters will play the role of Nullah, a young boy who lives on Lady Ashley's (Nicole Kidman) cattle station in the north of Australia. When Lady Ashley's station is under threat, she and the rough hewn Drover (Hugh Jackman) recruit homestead staff to save the property and Nullah is the crucial last team member to join.
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Crew
Australia is being produced by Baz Luhrmann, G. Mac Brown and Catherine Knapman under Luhrmann's Sydney based Bazmark Films banner, Australia will be distributed worldwide by News Corporation's Twentieth Century Fox.
Double Academy Award winning Production and Costume Designer Catherine Martin (Moulin Rouge!, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Strictly Ballroom) will again inspire with her visual expertise, re-creating outback Australia and Darwin of the 1930s.
Three talented Western Australian filmmakers, Stuart Morrice, Aron Tyler and Mark Parish have been given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work on the set of the film Australia.
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Australia will be released 26 November 2008.