Epic for Crowe and Kidman

Evening Standard10 April 2012

Oscar-winning stars Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman are to star in an epic Australian film.

Director Baz Luhrmann has described the movie as a sweeping romance in the same vein as Gone With the Wind.

He said it would be set in Australia from the mid-Thirties, leading up to the Japanese bombing of Darwin in the Second World War.

Crowe and Kidman were to have starred in a film based on the novel Eucalyptus, but the project collapsed.

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