June 7, 2006 - Russell Crowe's out and Hugh Jackman is in. Jackman (X-Men: The Last Stand) has replaced Crowe in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann not-yet-titled romantic action-adventure epic set to begin filming in Australia in February 2007.
Jackman joins Nicole Kidman for the movie which, according to a press release issued by 20th Century Fox, will have one more lead role filled shortly.
The Official Synopsis
Luhrmann's film is set in northern Australia prior to World War II and centers on an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
Source: 20th Century Fox