Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann is ready to debut Faraway Downs, the expanded and reimagined minimize of his 2008 function Australia, on the inaugural SXSW Sydney Display screen Pageant later this month.
The challenge will debut on October 21 down below earlier than hitting Hulu and Disney+ in all different territories on Nov 26. The movie’s construction has been expanded to unravel throughout what has been described as “six chapters.”
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, Brandon Walters, and Ben Mendelsohn, the story facilities on English aristocrat Girl Sarah Ashley (Kidman), who travels midway the world over to confront her wayward husband and promote an uncommon asset: Faraway Downs, a million-acre cattle ranch within the Australian outback. Following the dying of her husband, a ruthless Australian cattle baron, King Carney (Bryan Brown) plots to take her land, and he or she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Hugh Jackman) to guard her ranch.
Synopsis reads: The sweeping adventure-romance is explored via the eyes of younger Nullah (Brandon Walters), an Indigenous Australian youngster caught up within the authorities’s Draconian racial coverage now known as the Stolen Generations. Collectively, the trio experiences 4 life-altering years, a love affair between Girl Ashley and the drover, and the unavoidable impression of World Conflict II on Northern Australia.
“I used to be impressed to re-approach my movie Australia to create Faraway Downs due to the best way episodic storytelling has been reinvigorated by the streaming world,” stated Luhrmann. “With over 2 million toes of movie from the unique piece, my workforce and I have been in a position to revisit anew the central themes of the work. I’m honored to world premiere “Faraway Downs” in Australia, the place that has impressed me and my work my whole life, and with a companion like SXSW who deeply acknowledges the intersection of movie, tv, and music with storytelling.”
Australia was directed, produced (with Catherine Knapman and G. Mac Brown), and co-written by Baz Luhrmann, alongside writers Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, and Richard Flanagan, with manufacturing and costume design by multiple-Academy Award winner Catherine Martin. Faraway Downs is government produced by Luhrmann, Martin, Knapman, and Schuyler Weiss. twentieth Tv is the studio.
Colin Daniels, SXSW Sydney Managing Director, added: “We’re so glad to be sharing the artistic work of Baz Luhrmann and your complete Faraway Downs workforce at Australia’s first ever SXSW Sydney.”
With a program that features function movies, shorts, TV premieres, music movies, and XR, the SXSW Sydney 2023 Display screen Pageant takes place Oct 15-21.
