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June 25, 2003 — It's not set yet, but according to Reuters, Broken Hill, a small town of 20,000 in the Australian outback, might be where Alexander the Great fights his battles:
The hunt to find the desert battlefields of Alexander the Great has brought Hollywood movie moguls to the dusty Australian outback town of Broken Hill.
The town, with a population of just 20,000, is on the list of possible locations for the reportedly US$150 million (90 million pound) film about the famed conqueror, to star Leonardo di Caprio as Alexander and Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman as his mother.
Hollywood filmmakers Baz Luhrmann and Dino De Laurentiis toured the isolated, outback town looking for desert locations after Morocco was crossed off due to safety concerns following the Iraqi war.
"Alexander the Great spent most of his time as a ruler crashing around the Middle East," Andrew Plumer, film project coordinator in Broken Hill, told Reuters on Wednesday.
He said the film was looking for an arid landscape to double as the Middle East.
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