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    Tuesday
    Sep072010

    Natalie Portman Offered Gravity

    DateTue, September 7, 2010

    Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, plagued with delays and ill-fated searches for its lead, may have found salvation.

    Hot off the heels of the glowing reviews for Black Swan, Risky Business says a firm offer has been sent to Natalie Portman to headline the ambitious space-set 3D Robert Downey Jr. co-starring project.

    This comes after two rejections from original choice Angelina Jolie, recent rumblings of Rachel Weisz being name-dropped (via Latino Review), and Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively being earlier touted as the two finalists.

    She doesn't have the overseas box-office appeal of Jolie (a key, but fair, reasoning behind Warner Brothers' hesitance). But she has a crop of high-profilers hitting next year – the Ivan Reitman-directed comedy No Strings, Your Highness and, of course, Thor.

    Knock on wood, this crisis has been averted and she accepts.

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