Confidential News - Characters Named
January 25th, 2007
Plenty of news is flowing from the January 19th event of G’Day USA (see earlier) where Hugh Jackman and Baz Luhrmann presented a preview of Australia to a group of 800 people gathered in America from various industries to celebrate Australia’s international success as a country.
Kidman will play an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits the cattle station Faraway Downs and hires Jackman to move the herd across the country.
In a role almost seems penned especially for him, Thompson has been announced to play Kipling Flynn, a drunken accountant and flamboyant bon vivant.
Bryan Brown’s suitably weathered features will perfectly suit the role of cattle baron King Carney, the single greatest landholder in the country’s north.
David Wenham, the third lead, will raise the dramatic stakes of the plot as Neil Fletcher, playing the antagonist in the film, a station manager who is plotting to possess the ranch ‘Faraway Downs’.
As we continue to learn more we will begin to update the cast, crew and character biographies on the site.
source: Sydney Confidential