EXCLUSIVE: Buyers at the EFM have been on the hunt for Good Sex. The package has sparked a bidding war with Warner Bros, Amazon and Netflix among those understood to be in the mix for the hot project which is garnering WW offers around the $45M mark. This could well go up.
Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to star in the buzzy rom-com package, written and to be directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Girls).
CAA Media Finance and Film Nation Entertainment launched the project ahead of the market and it has drawn strong interest from theatrical buyers and streamers at an otherwise quiet EFM so far.
This is zeitgeisty fare. After Babygirl and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, age gap romances are in vogue and in Good Sex it’s Portman’s turn to have a dalliance with a younger man.
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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.” Casting for the two male leads is in process.
Portman and Sophie Mas will produce through their company, MountainA, along with Dunham and Michael Cohen under their Good Thing Going banner.
Portman has previously spoken of her admiration for Dunham as a filmmaker and how she was inspired by her after seeing Tiny Furniture.
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 in post on Netflix mini-series Too Much with Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter.
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