{"id":853,"date":"2007-07-08T14:33:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T13:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/08\/nicole-kidman-filming-australia\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T13:33:14","slug":"nicole-kidman-filming-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/07\/08\/nicole-kidman-filming-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman filming Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicole_Kidman\">Nicole Kidman<\/a> is currently filming <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baz_Luhrmann\">Baz Luhrmann<\/a>&#8216;s new epic <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0455824\/\">Australia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Set during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_2\">World War II<\/a>, the story follows an English aristocrat named Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) who is left in control of a cattle station. With the help of an Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drover_%28Australian%29\">drover<\/a> (played by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Jackman\">Hugh Jackman<\/a>), she drives the cattle across the property whilst <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bombing_of_Darwin%2C_February_19%2C_1942\">Darwin gets bombed by the Japanese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was originally set to star <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_Crowe\">Russell Crowe<\/a> in the Jackman role but he pulled out after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=7&amp;entry_id=9252\">problems with the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two pictures from the set:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/nicole-kidman-on-set-of-australia-1.jpg\" title=\"Nicole Kidman on set 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/nicole-kidman-on-set-of-australia-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Kidman on set 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/nicole-kidman-on-set-of-australia-2.jpg\" title=\"Nicole Kidman on set 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/nicole-kidman-on-set-of-australia-2.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Kidman on set 2\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is currently shooting on location in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darwin%2C_Australia\">Darwin<\/a>, the tropical capital city of Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Territory\">Northern Territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0455824\/\">IMDb entry for Australia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2007\/04\/02\/small-town-in-australia-bracing-for-invasion-of-baz\/\">Cinematical report on the production back in April<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Kidman is currently filming Baz Luhrmann&#8216;s new epic Australia. Set during World War II, the story follows an English aristocrat named Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) who is left in control of a cattle station. With the help of an Australian drover (played by\u00a0Hugh Jackman), she drives the cattle across the property whilst Darwin gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}