Natalie Portman Offered 'Jupiter Ascending, Making Vegan Documentary

One of the subplots of last year's awards season was not only seeing Natalie Portman make the rounds accepting her countless trophies for "Black Swan," but seeing her do so while navigating a press desperate for any shred of detail about her pregnancy. After she claimed her Best Actress trophy, she largely disappeared, except for a few promotional duties for "Thor," "Your Highness," "Hesher," and "No Strings Attached," all of which she shot before bringing a baby on board. Now, as we face a Portman-less 2012 honors fest, word is emerging that she may be in the midst of plotting her comeback.

According to the LA Times, Portman has been asked by Lana and Andy Wachowski, her "V For Vendetta" producers, to star in "Jupiter Ascending." Production on the sci-fi "Jupiter" wouldn't begin until next fall, after the Wachowski's wrap up their Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant, Halle Berry and Jim Sturgess-starring "Cloud Atlas," which they are co-directing with Tom Tykwer.

Word was also relayed on Wednesday that novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, whose book "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was made into a film that's current in theaters, revealed this summer in an interview with a French news source that Portman was planning on making a documentary out of his food manifesto, "Eating Animals." Portman wrote in 2009 for HuffPost that reading the book turned her vegan.

Portman has her own production company, Handsomecharlie Films, which she started in 2007. She backed "Hesher," which starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and is behind the ever-delayed "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."

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Comments

[MahatmaCoat]

03:55 PM on 01/06/2012

It isn't a comeback if you haven't gone away. She had a baby and took a few months off. Big whoop.

[Charles Elk]

09:19 AM on 01/06/2012

She was great in Your Highness.

[Yamby]

06:44 AM on 01/06/2012

I love Natalie. http://www.facebook.com/Portman.Fans

[MichaelFroemel]

05:33 AM on 01/06/2012

I like Natalie Portman as an actress. Think "V" and "Garden State" and "Black Swan" and so forth. She seems educatetd and grounded. And of course she's gorgeous.

[itsjules]

03:22 AM on 01/06/2012

I loved The Professional (mostly for Jean Reno--YUMMY--but she was pretty amazing in it as well, especially considering her age). I never saw that V movie, and I couldn't even get through the new Star Wars flicks (BORRRING, just my opinion). I thought she was pretty cute in Garden State. Her obvious dedication and work on Black Swan was spectacular, and I liked the movie (I love ballet movies) and I wasn't mad at her for winning the Oscar (though one of her speeches--either GG or Oscars, or some other one--was pretty tacky). I tried to watch Your Highness, but I just thought it was awful. I tried to watch Thor but I wasn't involved at all. I attempted that sex comedy one but, blah.

Yeah, that was a reaaaaaaaally long and convoluted way of saying, I guess I didn't even really notice she was "gone." I mean, she had a baby, right? And has a new relationship with the father, so I'd expect her to be out of sight for awhile. Although she wasn't really, because she was in 20 billion (or so) movies before she "left."

Eh, I don't hate her. I don't love her, either. I like her, though and I think she can be great in the right role and probably has a good career in front of her, but she's no Streep or Bullock.

[Yoda103]

03:05 AM on 01/06/2012

She is not missed.

[bridgeman]

02:13 AM on 01/06/2012

she left?

[kiran1207]

10:30 PM on 01/05/2012

I never liked her acting she is def over rated.

[bettyboop68]

09:34 PM on 01/05/2012

Geez people. Even good actors and actresses get casted in bad movies that doesnt mean they cant act.

[h23154]

08:37 PM on 01/05/2012

No awards for "Thor," "Your Highness," "Hesher," or "No Strings Attached?" Didn't see any but they could not have been worse than Black Swan and probably made more sense.

[norby413]

03:55 PM on 01/06/2012

Black Swan was fantastic.
Mila Kunis going down on Natalie Portman?
Should have got the Oscar...

[Mr Hoodoo]

05:22 PM on 01/05/2012

"Natalie's Comeback"

Hmm...

Where'd she go?

I never knew she was gone, given she's had 8 films from 2009 to now, including the major hit Black Swan, according to the wikipedia filmography entry for her.

[panasonic52]

06:51 PM on 01/05/2012

I was thinking the same. When she said she was going to be taking a break, I was hoping it was going to be longer than this. Don't get me wrong...I think she's a great actress in certain genres, but the number of movies she was in in such a short period of time was overkill

[Mr Hoodoo]

08:23 PM on 01/05/2012

I don't really think of her one way or another. It was just the headline that grabbed my attention as it's clearly wrong.

I did like Black Swan. Only other films I've seen her in were Everyone Says I Love You, but that only because of Woody Allen (director/actor), Drew Barrymore and Edward Norton. And also Mars Attacks!. But honestly I don't recall her in either of them, though that's not necessarily a coment on her acting abilities. Just that the stars I did look for were those I mention in the first film and people like Jack Nicholson, Dany DeVito and Pam Grier in the second one.

[Rick2783]

04:58 PM on 01/05/2012

I want to marry her.
Just sayin.

[marred]

03:34 PM on 01/05/2012

What exactly is she coming back from?

[Mr Hoodoo]

05:19 PM on 01/05/2012

Ya know!

[youvebeenflagged]

03:27 PM on 01/05/2012

Mmmmmm! Can someone pass the A1?

[youvebeenflagged]

03:27 PM on 01/05/2012

Most overrated actress of her generation (actually she is tied with Scarlett Johannsen)

[greenygenie]

06:16 PM on 01/05/2012

And dishonest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drS0XgRdlQc&feature=related

[h23154]

08:38 PM on 01/05/2012

Agreed. She peaked with The Professional.