Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated film Australia may have had an impressive 165 minute runtime, but there was much, much more to the story.

So much more that the director of Elvis and Moulin Rouge was able to turn his over two and a half hour film into a six-episode miniseries. He’s calling it Faraway Downs, and it debuts in November on Hulu.

The sweeping epic tells the story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and sell an unusual asset: a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback called Faraway Downs, thus the title.

After her husband dies, a ruthless Australian cattle baron with the improbable name of King Carney (Bryan Brown), plots to take her land and she reluctantly (at first) joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Hugh Jackman) to protect her ranch and her ward, young Nullah (Brandon Walters), a bi-racial Indigenous Australian child caught up in the government’s draconian racial policy, now known to have created Australia’s “Stolen Generations.” 

The series will, of course, still feature the romance between the two attractive leads, but it will also explore “the unavoidable impact of World War II on Northern Australia” over a period of four years, per the synopsis.

Faraway Downs was originally released as Luhrmann’s 2008 film Australia, which received an Academy Award nomination, albeit for best costume design. The movie flopped both commercially and critically, but Luhrmann’s second pass at his material will be screened at the inaugural SXSW Sydney Screen festival this month.

Luhrmann created Faraway Downs using original footage from the two million or so feet of film shot for the film, much of it left on Australia’s cutting room floor. He will present the series on the closing night of the festival on October 21st.

Faraway Downs was directed, produced (with Catherine Knapman and G. Mac Brown), and co-written by Luhrmann, alongside writers Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, and Richard Flanagan, with production and costume design by multiple-Academy Award winner Catherine Martin. 

Faraway Downs premieres November 26th on Hulu.