There are unconfirmed rumours that Moorhouse and Crowe, who is also executive producer, were not seeing eye to eye and that a different director may be required. When Kidman agreed to take the role the shoot was rescheduled to fit her other commitments and a script rewrite was undertaken to accommodate the fact that she is about 15 years older than the girl in the book.ĭirector Jocelyn Moorhouse is trying to salvage the movie but there may not be time.Ĭrowe is soon to begin a global publicity campaign for Cinderella Man, Kidman is committed to promoting The Interpreter in March and Bewitched in June before appearing in Wong Kar-wai's The Lady From Shanghai, which will shoot in Hong Kong during winter. Production was to have begun in October but stalled over the failure to find a lead actress. It is the second time the film has been delayed. Production was to begin on Monday but has been postponed indefinitely 'to allow time for further work on the script', the producers said.Ĭrew have been given a week's notice and the principal set, a farmhouse, is to be retained but producers have otherwise set about dismantling arrangements for the movie with an estimated budget of $20 million. Shooting of the film Eucalyptus on the north coast of NSW was aborted because of problems in adapting the script from Murray Bail's novel. The producers have all but pulled the plug on a film that was to have paired Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman in their tantalising first on-screen romance.

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