Natalie Portman To Star In Rom-Com ‘Good Sex’ With Lena Dunham Writing & Directing; FilmNation & CAA Media Finance Launching For EFM

Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to lead the romantic comedy Good Sex, which is written and directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Girls).

CAA Media Finance is managing domestic rights, while FilmNation Entertainment is overseeing international sales and will introduce the highly anticipated project at next week’s EFM.

Following films like Babygirl and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, the trend of age-gap romances continues, and Good Sex sees Portman at the center of such a dynamic.

The synopsis reads: “After spending a decade in a failed relationship, successful couples’ therapist Ally (Portman) is turning 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her best friend back into the hopeless New York dating scene. But Ally finds her life pulled in opposing directions as she falls into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster just as she begins a promising, more conventional relationship with Alan, a successful 50-something in Manhattan. As a romantic crossroads blossoms into a full-blown identity crisis, Ally juggles to keep these two very different men separate and to make sense of her own conflicting desires before she risks losing them both.”

Portman and Sophie Mas will produce through their company, MountainA, along with Dunham and Michael Cohen under their Good Thing Going banner.

Portman has previously spoken of her admiration for Dunham as a filmmaker and how she was inspired by her after seeing Tiny Furniture.

Black Swan and May December star Portman has Guy Ritchie’s Fountain Of Youth and Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist in post. Girls creator Dunham is in post on Netflix mini-series Too Much with Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter.

Portman is represented by CAA and attorney George Sheanshang; MountainA by CAA and Frankfurt Kurnit. Dunham and Good Thing Going are represented by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson.

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