巴兹·鲁赫曼重新剪辑《澳洲乱世情》，制成6集限定剧登陆流媒体

巴兹·鲁赫曼的票房可能会因为他的最新作品《猫王》而高居不下，但早在2008年，他的电影《澳洲乱世情》票房可没有那么理想，因为影片受到了严重的负面评价和许多观众的“耸耸肩”。 所以现在他走的是“施奈德导演重新剪辑”的路线，将这部史诗剧重新制作成一个名为《Faraway Downs》的限量系列剧。

Baz Luhrmann might be riding high at the box office thanks to his latest, Elvis, but back in 2008 he didn't fare so well as Australia was greeted with critical negatives and audience shrugs. So now he's going the Snyder Cut route, re-working the epic drama into a limited series called Faraway Downs.

这部剧实际上是六集电影的导演剪辑版，鲁赫曼会抢救剪辑片段，将故事分成几块，改变结局并更新配乐。

Effectively a six-episode director's cut of the movie, it sees Luhrmann rescuing cut footage, breaking up the story into chunks, changing the ending and updating the soundtrack.

如果你跳过了最初的版本——故事的中心是英国贵族莎拉·阿什利夫人（妮可·基德曼），她在丈夫去世后继承了澳大利亚的一个大型养牛场 Faraway Downs。 当澳大利亚牛大王密谋夺取她的土地时，她不情愿地与一个粗野的牧牛人（休杰克曼）联手保护她的牧场。 这个故事还涉及年轻的 Nullah（布兰登沃尔特斯），一个混血儿的澳大利亚土著儿童，被政府的严厉种族政策所困扰，现在被称为“被盗的一代”。

In case you skipped the original release, the story centers on English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) who inherits Faraway Downs, a large cattle ranch in Australia following the death of her husband. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Hugh Jackman) to protect her ranch. The story also involves young Nullah (Brandon Walters), a bi-racial Indigenous Australian child caught up in the government’s draconian racial policy now referred to as the "Stolen Generations."

“我最初打算采用全面的《乱世佳人》式史诗的概念，并将其转变为首脑，”鲁赫曼解释说。 “一种使用浪漫和史诗般的戏剧来揭示原住民的角色以及澳大利亚历史上‘偷走的一代’的痛苦伤疤。 虽然《澳洲乱世情》这部电影有自己的生活，但这个故事还有另一个故事。

"I originally set out to take the notion of the sweeping Gone With The Wind-style epic and turn it on its head," Luhrmann explains. "A way of using romance and epic drama to shine a light on the roles of First Nations people and the painful scar in Australian history of the 'Stolen Generations.' While Australia the film has its own life, there was another telling of this story.

（责任编辑兼翻译：兰林怿）