Just off a plane from Tokyo to accept another accolade in his decorated career, Baz Luhrmann has news about his upcoming Joan of Arc film. The director of Moulin Rouge! , The Great Gatsby and Elvis has cast little-known 18-year-old Brit Isla Johnston in the central role and will start shooting in the new year.

And while there have been intermittent fears among filmmakers that President Trump’s mooted tariff on American films shooting overseas might force them to relocate to the US, Luhrmann will do as he did with Elvis and shoot Jehanne d’Arc on the Gold Coast.

“If I said anything about tariffs, it would be out of date tomorrow,” he said. “What we need to focus on is that we can make any story at any scale for global audiences [in Australia].”

Luhrmann was speaking on what he

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