20th Century Fox force Luhrmann to change AUSTRALIA ending?
Posted by Matt Holmes
The Guardian report that 20th Century Fox have forced Baz Lurhmann to change the ending to his soon to be released $120 million epic AUSTRALIA after “intense discussions” resulted in a more commercial friendly ending being shot.
It would seem audiences at test screenings weren’t happy with the ending Luhrmann originally intended.
I won’t spoil details about it for you but if you visit the news source at the above link, you can find out for yourself what the issue was.
Rope of Silicon spoke “at length” with a rep for Fox yesterday who it’s suggested that indeed the ending was changed but it was Luhrmann who instigated it.
Baz Luhrmann is a “final cut” director and the studio has always been supportive of his choices.
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman star in the movie which has used CASABLANCA style imagery to promote this as being a love story on epic proportions. New poster from ROS…
The movie opens Nov. 26th in the U.S. and Dec. 26th in the U.K.
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I must say that the trailer to this film gives me chills. Im really looking forward to seeing it as this is the type of big epic love story that’s not produced much nowadays!
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