Natalie Portman has joined the cast as the female lead in
David Gordon Green‘s “
Your Highness.” Portman will star with
Danny McBride and
James Franco in the Universal Pictures comedy.
David Gordon Green will direct from the script by McBride who wrote it with
Ben Best.
Danny McBride will play an arrogant lazy prince who with his brother (James Franco) must complete a quest to save the kingdom and his brother’s fiance. Portman will play a warrior princess that the lazy prince falls in love with. Production is set to begin this July in Belfast, Ireland.
Portman is currently starring with
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and
Rainn Wilson in the
Spencer Susser‘s “
Hesher.”
She will next be seen in the
Don Roos‘ “
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits” and
Jim Sheridan-directed “
Brothers,” with
Tobey Maguire and
Jake Gyllenhaal.
