{"id":2312,"date":"2021-04-14T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:16:11","slug":"natalie-portman-to-star-in-hbo-movie-based-on-elena-ferrante-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/natalie-portman-to-star-in-hbo-movie-based-on-elena-ferrante-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman to Star in HBO Movie Based on Elena Ferrante Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/natalie-portman-star-hbo-movie-elena-ferrante\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> &#8211; The Oscar winner will play a woman in crisis in &#8216;The Days of Abandonment.&#8217;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"928\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-3.jpg 928w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-3-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-3-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-3-106x60.jpg 106w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-3-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><\/figure><p>Natalie Portman is extending her reach into TV, signing on to star in and executive produce an HBO film.<\/p><p>The Oscar winner, who recently signed a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/natalie-portman-first-look-tv-deal-apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first-look TV deal at Apple<\/a>, will play the lead role in&nbsp;<em>The Days of Abandonment<\/em>, based on a novel by&nbsp;<em>My Brilliant Friend<\/em>&nbsp;author Elena Ferrante. Sundance award winner Maggie Betts (<em>Novitiate<\/em>) will adapt the novel and direct the film, which is in preproduction.<\/p><p><em>The Days of Abandonment<\/em>&nbsp;(which was previously adapted for a 2006 Italian film) centers on Tess (Portman),&nbsp;a woman who abandoned her own dreams for a stable home life and is in turn abandoned by her husband, throwing her world off its axis. The movie will delve into the mind of a woman in crisis, who &#8220;confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity as Tess traverses the darkest reaches of her own psyche,&#8221; per the film&#8217;s logline.<\/p><p>The movie is the second high-profile TV project that Portman has signed on to recently. She&#8217;ll also star with Lupita Nyong&#8217;o in an Apple limited series based on Laura Lippman&#8217;s novel&nbsp;<em>Lady in the Lake<\/em>. HBO, meanwhile, has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/my-brilliant-friend-renewed-third-season-at-hbo-1292621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">renewed&nbsp;<em>My Brilliant Friend<\/em><\/a>, the series based on Ferrante&#8217;s Neapolitan novels, for a third season.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/natalie-portman-star-hbo-movie-elena-ferrante\">Read More Here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood Reporter &#8211; The Oscar winner will play a woman in crisis in &#8216;The Days of Abandonment.&#8217; Natalie Portman is extending her reach into TV, signing on to star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,371,369,370],"class_list":{"0":"post-2312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-elena-ferrante","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-my-brilliant-friend","11":"tag-natalie-portman"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Natalie-Portman-1618285088-928x523-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}