Javier Barden (The Sea Inside) and Natalie Portman (Closer) are in talks to star in a drama about Spanish painter Francisco Goya titled Goya’s Ghosts. Milos Forman will direct the drama, which has a target start date of this fall in Europe.
The film will be 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 and also her teenage daughter Alicia, who might be the result of an illicit affair with the monk.
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