Natalie Portman Returns to Rom-Coms After 14-Year Absence

Oscar winner Natalie Portman is making a return to the rom-com genre after in a movie directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Girls).

CAA Media Finance represents domestic rights while Film Nation Entertainment is handling international and will introduce the buzzy project at next week’s EFM.

After "Babygirl" and "Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy", age gap romances are in vogue, and Portman’s next movie sees her having a dalliance with a younger man.

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.

In 2011, Portman starred opposite Ashton Kutcher in Ivan Reitman's "No Strings Attached", her last romantic comedy feature in 14 years. 

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

The "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 also in post on the Netflix mini-series "Too Much" with Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter.