'Goya' paints its principals
Forman directing drama for producer Zaentz
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Drama will be directed by Milos Forman and produced by Saul Zaentz.
Financing for the film is still being locked down, but both thesps have cleared their schedules for early fall for a film that will shoot around Europe.
Scripted by Jean-Claude Carriere and Forman, the drama is 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 as well as her teen daughter Alicia, who might be the result of an illicit affair with the monk.
Coming off her Oscar-nominated perf in "Closer," Portman is shooting "V for Vendetta." She and Bardem, last seen in "The Sea Inside," appear in different segments of portmanteau pic "Paris, Je t'aime."
Forman and Zaentz previously collaborated on Oscar-winning films "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus."
