Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Faraway Downs’ to World Premiere at Inaugural SXSW Sydney Fest

Baz Luhrmann’s Faraway Downs, a six half sequence that extends his 2008 epic Australia, will shut the inaugural SXSW Sydney Display screen Pageant on Oct. 21 with a world premiere.

The Elvis filmmaker might be readily available to current the restricted sequence informed in six chapters and starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, Brandon Walters and Ben Mendelsohn. The SXSW pageant bow might be adopted by Faraway Downs launching concurrently on Hulu within the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and on Disney+ in all different territories on Nov. 26, 2023. 

Faraway Downs, with twentieth Tv because the studio, will increase on Australia, which starred Kidman and Jackman, utilizing unique footage and a brand new ending and up to date soundtrack. When Australia first premiered in 2008, Luhrmann mentioned he had filmed three endings. The theatrical lower of Australia has a operating time of two hours, 45 minutes. There’s no phrase on how lengthy the total six-episode sequence will run.

The reimagined restricted sequence will inform the story of an English aristocrat, Girl Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a big cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle drover or herder (Hugh Jackman) to guard her ranch.

The story is explored by means of the eyes of younger Nullah (Brandon Walters), a bi-racial Indigenous Australian baby caught up within the authorities’s draconian racial coverage now known as the “Stolen Generations.” The trio experiences 4 life-altering years, a love affair between Sarah and the drover and the unavoidable influence 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. With over 2 million ft of movie from the unique piece, my workforce and I have been capable of revisit anew the central themes of the work,” Luhrmann mentioned in a press release as he will get set to debut the sequence in his native Australia.  

He directed, produced and co-wrote Faraway Downs alongside writers Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan, with manufacturing and costume design by Oscar winner Catherine Martin. The sequence is govt produced by Luhrmann and Martin, together with Catherine Knapman and Schuyler Weiss. Knapman was a producer and Martin a co-producer of the 2008 movie.

The inaugural SXSW Sydney 2023 Display screen Pageant will run from Oct. 15 to 21.