EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Natalie Portman is ready to star in rom-com Good Sex, written and to be directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Women).
CAA Media Finance represents home rights whereas Movie Nation Leisure is dealing with worldwide and can introduce the buzzy venture at subsequent week’s EFM.
After Babygirl and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, age hole romances are in vogue and in Good Intercourse it’s Portman’s flip to have a dalliance with a youthful man.
The synopsis reads: “After spending a decade in a failed relationship, profitable {couples}’ therapist Ally (Portman) is popping 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her greatest good friend again into the hopeless New York courting scene. However Ally finds her life pulled in opposing instructions as she falls right into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster simply as she begins a promising, extra typical relationship with Alan, a profitable 50-something in Manhattan. As a romantic crossroads blossoms right into a full-blown id disaster, Ally juggles to maintain these two very completely different males separate and to make sense of her personal conflicting wishes earlier than she dangers dropping them each.”
Portman and Sophie Mas will produce by their firm, MountainA, together with Dunham and Michael Cohen beneath their Good Factor Going banner.
Portman has beforehand spoken of her admiration for Dunham as a filmmaker and the way she was impressed by her after seeing Tiny Furnishings.
Black Swan and Could December star Portman has Man Ritchie’s Fountain Of Youth and Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist in put up. Women creator Dunham is in put up on Netflix mini-series Too A lot with Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter.
Portman is represented by CAA and lawyer George Sheanshang; MountainA by CAA and Frankfurt Kurnit. Dunham and Good Factor Going are represented by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson.
