Pitt and Portman Showcase 'Important Artifacts'

The increasingly busy Brad Pitt will join Natalie Portman in an adaptation sure to change its name. Variety has announced that the pair will star in a film version of the recently published Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leeanne Shapton. On top of starring in the romantic comedy, Pitt will also produce through his remarkably reliable Plan B, which has nine films slated for the next two years, including the highly anticipated World War Z and the unrelated Lost City of Z. Pitt is also producing the comic adaptation Kick-Ass and director Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, in which he will star. Looking at his upcoming roles, Important Artifacts and Personal Property will be a huge shift for Pitt, who hasn't really made a romantic comedy of any kind since Mr. and Mrs. Smith. To find something more along these lines, you'd probably have to go back to his guest spots on Friends. "The book is structured like an estate catalog," writes Variety, "with items that chronicle the rise and fall of the four-year relationship between Lenore Doolan (Portman), a 20-something New York Times food columnist and Harold Morris (Pitt), a 40-something photographer." I can see that the premise could help the film visually, but it does seem a little gimmicky to do that for an entire movie. There' no director attached or a production schedule, but with Pitt and Portman, it should attract some pretty big names.

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[lisa]

this is...weird.

[Eating Butter]

Sheesh...

And I thought "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was a mouthful.