Director Baz Luhrmann has been speaking with
The Sydney Morning Herald about moving his
Alexander the Great from Morocco to Australia.
Director Baz Luhrmann will take the legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis on an outback tour next month in an effort to bring the epic film Alexander The Great to Australia.
The $US100 million ($152 million) production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the ruler of the ancient world and Nicole Kidman as his mother, had been due to shoot in Morocco.
But De Laurentiis said last week that terrorism fears following the Casablanca suicide bombings had made it too dangerous to take American actors to that country.
In a break from writing the script in Sydney yesterday, Luhrmann said he would take his fellow producer on a week-long tour of Broken Hill, the Northern Territory and South Australia.
"We'll just get a jet and go tearing around Australia," he said.
Under a plan developed with the Australian producer Catherine Knapman, they will propose that the film be shot in "one or a combination" of these outback areas, with interior filming at Fox Studios in Sydney.