EMPIRE Magazine - August 2008 - Australia Feature

July 6th, 2008

British edition of the EMPIRE film magazine has a great four page feature on ‘Australia’.

The magazine has four glossy pages with a great on set encounter from one of the writers at Empire. We get to hear from Baz Luhrmann, about the scale of the epic he’s taken on and the expectations involved in that. CM and Nicole Kidman have their say and Mr Hugh Jackman even gets a peek in towards the end.

“This is a land far, far away,” trills Luhrmann. “Metaphorically speaking, it has a sense of fairy tale about it.”

“This is the last of a dying breed, this kind of movie,” Kidman enthuses, harking back to those days before CGI, when you make your epic - African Queen, Doctor Zhivago - you had to drag your production lock, stock and barrel into the wilds. “I mean, they don’t build stuff like this anymore. To feel that air and see people ravaged by the elements, as hard as it is, it’s exquisite.”

For those wishing to purchase the magazine, Empire’s August 2008 edition is currently available at news stands in the UK and via vendors carrying international magazines. Thanks to Hengist from the Australia Forum you can view scans of the magazine in our gallery, or if you’d like to read the article you can do so in our transcripts archive here.

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