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Baz Luhrmann reveals next project will be the 'ultimate coming-of-age' story - and it's been 30 years in the making


Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has promised fans that his new film about the French heroine Joan of Arc will be the 'ultimate coming-of-age' story.

The true story of Joan of Arc centres on a peasant girl who led an army against the English in the Hundred Years War during the Middle Ages. Joan's story has been filmed many times in the last 100-years with actresses including Casablanca star Ingrid Bergman and Americans Milla Jovovich and Leelee Sobieski playing the role of France's patron saint. The true story of Joan of Arc centres on a peasant girl who led an army against the English in the Hundred Years War during the Middle Ages.

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