Today Show Video -
28 March 2007
Today Show Video -
28 March 2007
On 28 March 2007, the Ninemsn.com website posted a video clip entitled 'Baz In Darwin'. The clip is a segment of Australian television show, the Today show. The Baz segment of the video begins at approximately 1 minute, 28 seconds, after an advertisement, some talk about cricket, and some talk about Sylvester Stallone (lol). The video was the first to reveal that Darwin would be used as a location in the movie shoot after all.
Video - Today Show - Darwin Shoot
Date: 28 March 2007.
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Richard Wilkins (host):
"Baz Luhrmann has been up in the Northern Territory. There was talk that Baz
wasn't actually going to be shooting in Darwin but he's given it the thumbs up.
It appeared that the Darwin scenes for the movie Australia were all to be shot
in the Queensland town of Bowen which of course has got a deep harbour similar
to Darwin, but Baz was in Darwin and you can see this vision of him up there
yesterday taking some little digi cam vision of some of the locals and a bit of
Hollywood hitting Darwin. Very exciting and that wharf, the big iconic wharf in
Darwin, the Stokes Hill Wharf will feature prominently in the movie. That's the
harbour that Nicole Kidman will land in on a Catalyna plane, playing an English
woman who comes to Australia inheriting a big property, falling in love with a
stockman by the name of Hugh Jackman. And of course the background of the
Japanese bombing of Darwin. It's shaping up as a true epic and it's great to see
Baz getting out meeting the locals and telling us what's going on."
Sarah (co-host):
And showing the world how beautiful Australia is, and parts of Australia they
don't always see, you know, in Darwin and places like that.
Richard:
Yeah, well, it's going to be a real showcase for Australia, with a lot of the
droving scenes in Western Australia, and of course Darwin, Queensland and head
office here in New South Wales. It's not called Australia for nothing.
Sarah:
When do they start shooting?
Richard:
They start shooting next month, the end of next month, and the Darwin scenes
June, July.
