Sydney - Hollywood actor Nicole Kidman's hunky new love doesn't lose his life in the final scene of Australia after director Baz Luhrmann bowed to pressure from Twentieth Century Fox to give the big-budget movie a happy ending, news reports said Sunday.
Luhrmann, who is racing against time to ready the epic for worldwide release on November 26, had initially killed off Hugh Jackman's character, identified only as the Drover, just before the credits rolled.
But the money men at Fox insisted on changes that transform "an action-filled tragedy" into more of a weepy romance, the Sunday Telegraph reported.