Natalie Portman: Actress Turned Director

Natalie Portman has always seemed like the kind of actress who will go on to ‘bigger things’. It was obvious to many of her fans that she would go on to become a producer and even one day a director. Not many people would have expected that day to come so soon, but it has.

Natalie Portman has signed a two-year deal with Participant Productions and will make her first feature film debut as director. She will direct a film based on the bestselling memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Israeli novelist Amos Oz.

The book is described as,

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed new work by “one of Israel’s most gifted and prolific authors” (Helen Epstein, The Forward) is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. The story of an adolescent whose life has been changed forever by his mother’s suicide when he was twelve years old. The story of a man who leaves the constraints of his family and its community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz, change his name, marry, have children. The story of a writer who becomes an active participant in the political life of his nation.

Portman will direct with Naomi Foner in talks to adapt the screenplay.

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