{"id":2312,"date":"2021-04-14T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:00:42","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":"

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> – The Oscar winner will play a woman in crisis in ‘The Days of Abandonment.’<\/p>

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Natalie Portman is extending her reach into TV, signing on to star in and executive produce an HBO film.<\/p>

The Oscar winner, who recently signed a first-look TV deal at Apple<\/a>, will play the lead role in The Days of Abandonment<\/em>, based on a novel by My Brilliant Friend<\/em> author Elena Ferrante. Sundance award winner Maggie Betts (Novitiate<\/em>) will adapt the novel and direct the film, which is in preproduction.<\/p>

The Days of Abandonment<\/em> (which was previously adapted for a 2006 Italian film) centers on Tess (Portman), 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 “confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity as Tess traverses the darkest reaches of her own psyche,” per the film’s logline.<\/p>

The movie is the second high-profile TV project that Portman has signed on to recently. She’ll also star with Lupita Nyong’o in an Apple limited series based on Laura Lippman’s novel Lady in the Lake<\/em>. HBO, meanwhile, has renewed My Brilliant Friend<\/em><\/a>, the series based on Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, for a third season.<\/p>

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