Portman To Play Jane
According to the July 26th issue of Variety, Natalie Portman will play Jane Austen as a young woman in the upcoming film BECOMING JANE. The article, which details British producer Tony Garnett’s recent and upcoming projects, states that BECOMING JANE is one of two films that Garnett has chosen to work on in the next year.
Garnett and his development topper, Britt Harrison, have trawled through more than 600 projects and come up with two to shoot next year. Natalie Portman is attached to play the young Jane Austen in “Becoming Jane.” Kirk Jones will direct “Eddie the Eagle,” about the hapless British ski-jumper who became a folk hero at the 1988 Olympics.
As of now, this has not been confirmed. The AustenBlog staff will be sure to keep its readers abreast of any breaking news.
September 3rd, 2004 at 10:14 am
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Say it isn’t so!! Someone hurry up and unconfirm it! First Keira as Lizzie, now this! When will the madness stop??? This is all a bad dream!
::weeps in despair::
September 3rd, 2004 at 11:24 am
Yeah. She’s not my first choice.
I’d say, they don’t have actresses in England? But look where that got us with P&P3.
March 20th, 2005 at 3:04 pm
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