Kidman and Jackman head for 'Australia'

Baz Luhrmann's outback epic finally has a name and is set to shoot down under in March.

Nov 23 2006

Baz Luhrmann's long-gestating Australian epic is finally set to roll before cameras, under the somewhat unimaginative moniker 'Australia'.

Nicole Kidman will star opposite Hugh Jackman (who replaced fellow Aussie Russell Crowe) in the $130 million flick, which will be Luhrmann's first film since 'Moulin Rouge!' in 2001.

Kidman stars as an English aristocrat who moves to an outback station in the 1930s, while Jackman will play an outback drover who catches her eye. Romance blossoms as the pair are caught up in the World War II bombing of Darwin.

Rehearsals start in Sydney in December, with the film set to shoot in the Northern Territory in March.

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