Natalie Portman In Drama 'Goya's Ghosts'


Natalie PortmanJavier Bardem and Natalie Portman are in talks to star in Goya's Ghosts, the long-in-the-works drama about Spanish painter Francisco Goya, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Drama will be directed by Milos Forman the drama is set in Spain in 1792, when Goya was the country's most famous painter. A scandal arises when his teenage muse is framed for heresy by a manipulative monk who is one of the driving forces behind the Spanish Inquisition.

Bardem will play the monk. Portman will play the muse as well as her teen daughter Alicia, who might be the result of an illicit affair with the monk.

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