Variety reports that Russell Crowe is in negotiations to star in Fox Searchlight’s Eucalyptus, a Jocelyn Moorehouse-directed adaptation of the Murray Bail novel, which is a popular fable set in South Wales, where a widower announces his beautiful daughter can marry only the man who can identify each of the hundreds of species of eucalyptus trees overwhelming the grounds of his estate.
However, the daughter has become smitten with a mysterious New Zealander who has enchanted her with a tale to correspond with each eucalyptus tree.
Crowe would play the storyteller.
