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Hugh Jackman will cross the Tasman again to star in a movie being partly filmed in New Zealand.
Jackman will star in the $US90 million ($NZ151 million) movie, Unbound Captives, alongside Oscar winning actress Rachel Weisz.
The film is about a frontier woman whose husband and children are killed by a Comanche war party in 1859, showbusiness newspaper Variety reported.
It will also be shot in the US state of New Mexico.
It won't be Jackman's first foray in New Zealand. He was in the country previously to film parts of Wolverine in and around Dunedin.
American actress Madeleine Stowe will direct Unbound Captives using her own script.
Stowe originally planned to play the frontier woman herself but it will be played by Weisz, Variety reported.
Best known for her roles in such films as Last of the Mohicans and 12 Monkeys, Stowe wrote the script in 2003, but refused to sell it because she wanted to direct as well as write.
She will be helped in her directorial debut by experienced cinematographer John Toll, who shot The Last Samurai in Taranaki.
