More On Board To Show Love for ‘New York’

I’m starting to think that Nathalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson were doing a lot more than gossiping about male leads, or trading fashion tips on the set of The Other Boleyn
Girl.

Joining the ranks of other young Hollywood actresses who go behind
the camera (Kirsten Dunst made a Sundance short and Sarah Polley raised
the bar with what we can expect from young talents with Away from Her) Johansson was confirmed a while back that she would be directing a segment in New York, I Love
You (her film follows the lonely journey of one man throughout the city) and now, Portman has been confirmed to both write and direct 1/12th of the short film collection.  

Further announcements have been made regarding the cast and crew of the twelve part pic. Variety reports that Orlando Bloom, Olivia Thirlby, Hayden Christensen and Ethan Hawke have joined the cast (we confirmed Hawke’s  involvement a couple of weeks ago). Furthermore, THR reports that Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie and John Hurt have also hopped on board, starring in a segment written by the late Anthony Minghella with replacement director Shekhar Kapur taking over the reigns. 

Following last year’s surprisingly successful Paris, je t’aime, which
pulled in almost $5 million at the domestic box office, New York is to
be shot across the five broroughs of the Big Apple – filming is currently under way in many pockets of the city.

This is the second installment of producer Emannuel Benbihy’s “Cities of Love” global series. Next in line for the metropolitan love series is Shanghai, followed by a location in South America and Africa on the drawing board.

Variety reports that further confirmed cast includes Carlos Acosta, Kevin Bacon, Justin Bartha, Rachel Bilson, James Caan, Bradley Cooper, Chris Cooper, Drea de Matteo, Irrfan Khan, Cloris Leachman, Blake Lively, Emilie Ohana, Maggie Q, Shu Qi, Eli Wallach, Saul Williams, Robin Wright-Penn, Anton Yelchin and Ugur Yucel.