Natalie Portman takes up directing
Well Orson Welles made Citizen Kane when he was the same age...
At 26, Natalie Portman is quite a young actress to attempt the move into directing but I admire her ambition. Variety say the actress plans to helm her first feature A Tale of Love and Darkness under her newly formed banner Handsomecharlie Films. The movie will be based on the memoir of Amos Oz...
Oz's story dives into 120 years of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel. Those who stayed in Europe were murdered; those who escaped took the past with them. In search of the roots of his family tragedy, he uncovers the secrets.Naomi Foner, the writer of Sidney Lumet's 1988 movie Running on Empty is in talks to write the script. She is of course also the mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal. Portman's inspiration for the film is said to have come from recent movies like Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck and also An Inconvenient Truth... so she setup her own production banner to tackle similarly political and socially relevant films. Portman has done much charity work alongside her acting career, (she is the ambassador of hope for Finca, an organisation providing funding for low income countries) and will likely helm more movies in the future dealing with world issues. No word on whether she will star in the movie too but I have to say I'm fascinated by her career choice here. Can anyone else think of an actresses' career was so successful at such a young age... that she decided to take up directing too?