Natalie Portman will star in the supernatural thriller The Black Swan for The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky, after she wraps the Belfast shoot of Your Highness. The film was almost put into production in 2007, and has only now been resurrected because of the critical acclaim thrown at The Wrestler. Portman will play one of two competing ballerina's as a hugely important performance approaches; the kicker is, one of the gyrating skinny broads is just a hallucination. Takes competing against yourself to a whole new level, doesn't it? This actually sounds pretty fantastic; Portman is always watchable, and Aronofsky is a director who can do both thoughtful and bleak. It does mean that his proposed Robocop reboot has been pushed back, though. Still, an original idea in Hollywood - something isn't right.
