After a failed effort at working together on Eucalyptus, Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman are seeking to team with Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. All three are Australian.

Crowe and Kidman have actually signed on to star in what is being called a legendary Australian Wilderness movie set in the years up to and including World War II. The movie, codenamed Project Oklahoma, will begin in the 1930s and stretch to the 1942 Japanese battle of the tropical city of Darwin.

Weve talked a bout it for over 7 years, that we need to do something together in Australia. Luhrmann said to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Kidman stated that she was looking forward to making a distinctively Australian story with Crowe, who she calls her great buddy.

Luhrmann compared the movie to Chosen the Wind and Lawrence of Arabia. Collateral screenwriter Stuart Beattie will work with Luhrmann on the script for the movie.

Kidman has actually had a working history with Luhrmann, who directed the three minute, multimillion-dollar Chanel No. 5 commercial in which Kidman starred.

The rumored budget plan for the film is said to be about $40 million in Australian currency, which is comparable to about $30 https://www.mutisite.com million in U.S. dollars. Filming is set to begin in August, and the film is predicted to be launched in 2007.