Vikings actor Travis Fimmel will feature in a major new movie to be filmed in Queensland this year.

The film, provisionally-titled Danger Close, will be set in Vietnam, and is based on the true story of young men facing the strange, contradictory and brutal truths of war during the Battle of Long Tan.

Kingaroy, including an area that has foliage that looks like a rubber plantation, and Nerang will be key filming locations.

The Battle of Long Tan took place in a rubber plantation near Long Tan in South Vietnam in 1966.