‘Faraway Downs’: Watch The Official Trailer For Baz Luhrmann’s Limited Series Adaptation For Hulu Ahead Of November Launch

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Hulu has unveiled the official trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s Faraway Downs TV series starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, ahead of its November 26 launch.

The story centers on an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and sell an unusual asset: a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback called Faraway Downs. Following the death of her husband, a ruthless Australian cattle baron, King Carney (Bryan Brown), plots to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Jackman) to protect her ranch. The sweeping adventure romance is explored through the eyes of young Nullah (Brandon Walters), a bi-racial Indigenous Australian child caught up in the government’s draconian racial policy now referred to as the “Stolen Generations.”

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Luhrmann also directed Oscar-nominated 2008 movie Australia and he returns for the Hulu series, which debuts in two days at the SXSW Sydney Screen Festival.

Faraway Downs was directed, produced (with Catherine Knapman and G. Mac Brown), and co-written by Luhrmann, alongside writers Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, and Richard Flanagan, with production and costume design by multiple-Academy Award winner Catherine Martin. Faraway Downs is executive produced by Luhrmann, Martin, Knapman, and Schuyler Weiss. 20th Television is the studio.

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