Trailer for Baz Luhrmann's FARAWAY DOWNS Series Starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman
Hulu has released the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann‘s sweeping Australian epic Faraway Downs, a limited series starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The show will expand the story told in the 2008 film Australia, and it was assembled entirely from footage Luhrmann shot for Australia, with a new ending and updated soundtrack.
The story centers on an English aristocrat, “Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman), who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and sell an unusual asset: a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback called Faraway Downs. Following the death of her husband, a ruthless Australian cattle baron, King Carney (Bryan Brown), plots to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Jackman) to protect her ranch.”
The “sweeping adventure romance is explored through the eyes of young Nullah (Brandon Walters), a bi-racial Indigenous Australian child caught up in the government’s draconian racial policy now referred to as the Stolen Generations.”
Faraway Downs was directed, produced, and co-written by Luhrmann (Elvis, The Great Gatsby) and he worked on the series with writers Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, and Richard Flanagan.
Luhrmann previously said in a statement: “I originally set out to take the notion of the sweeping, Gone With the Wind-style epic and turn it on its head — a way of using romance and epic drama to shine a light on the roles of First Nations people and the painful scar in Australian history of the ‘Stolen Generations. While Australia the film has its own life, there was another telling of this story; one with different layers, nuances and even alternative plot twists that an episodic format has allowed us to explore. Drawn from the same material, Faraway Downs is a new variation on Australia for audiences to discover.”
The series will be released on Hulu on November 26th.