Abandoned by all, Natalie Portman in an adaptation of a novel by Elena Ferrante

Natalie Portman continues her career on the small screen.

The Oscar-winning actress will star in an HBO film, which she will also executive produce.

She will play the main role of

, an adaptation of a novel by Elena Ferrante, the Italian author of the successful saga

.

The film, which is in its pre-production, will be adapted and directed by Maggie Betts, winner of the Sundance Film Festival for her film

.

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The days of my abandonment

, which has already been adapted to the cinema in 2006 in Italy, takes an interest in Tess (Natalie Portman), a woman who has given up all her dreams for a stable domestic life, and in turn finds herself abandoned by her husband.

At this precise moment, his whole world collapses.

The film will offer an immersion in the mind of this woman in crisis, "

", explains the synopsis.

An Apple series in the works

This film is the second major television project in which Natalie Portman recently embarked.

She will also star alongside Lupita Nyong'o in an Apple series based on Laura Lippman's novel,

.

For its part, HBO has announced that

, a series based on the Neapolitan tetralogy of Elena Ferrante, will have a third season.

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finally established?

It is therefore yet another adaptation for the Italian author, whose last novel appeared in France in June 2020,

, will also be adapted as a series by Netflix.

With at least fifteen million copies of

sold worldwide, and a work translated into 42 languages, a veritable Ferrante fever has gripped the world of books for several years.

To the point that the Gallimard house, in January 2017, for example had planned an exceptional first printing of 100,000 copies on the occasion of the release of the third part of 

.

And with these new adaptations coming up, the fever is not about to abate.