The director has returned to the footage from his 2008 film starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

On this planet of Hollywood, the idea of the Director’s Reduce shouldn’t be unusual. Typically coming years after the unique launch, they typically provide boosted runtimes and beforehand deleted scenes. And even see alternate endings reinstated. The concept is that the director can restore their imaginative and prescient with out the strain and constraints of a theatrical launch.

Now, Baz Luhrmann has returned to his 2008 film Australia. Nevertheless, he’s going far additional than merely restoring just a few scenes from the slicing room ground. From the unique footage, which generated a 165-minute film, he’s created a six-chapter mini-series. The press launch describes Faraway Downs as a “reimagined and prolonged model” of the story.

Right here’s the synopsis for Faraway Downs:

Faraway Downs facilities on an English aristocrat, Woman Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) who travels world wide to confront her wayward husband and promote an uncommon asset:  a million-acre cattle ranch within the Australian Outback known as “Faraway Downs”.  Following the loss of life 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.

The sweeping journey romance is explored by the eyes of younger Nullah (Brandon Walters), a bi-racial Indigenous Australian little one 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 Woman Ashley & the Drover, and the unavoidable influence of World Conflict II on Northern Australia.

Whereas the movie acquired combined evaluations on launch, it helped itself to a wholesome 200-million-dollar field workplace.

Talking in regards to the venture in June 2022, Luhrmann stated:

“Whereas Australia the movie has its personal life, there was one other telling of this story; one with completely different layers, nuances and even different plot twists that an episodic format has allowed us to discover. Drawn from the identical materials, Faraway Downs is a brand new variation on Australia for audiences to find.”

Faraway Downs streams on Disney + from the twenty sixth of November, 2023. Within the US it’s on Hulu and in Latin America it lives on Star+.