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Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman star in the film “The Gallerist.”

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega are in talks to star The gallery owner, with Cathy Yan on board as director. Yan co-wrote the picture with James Pedersen. Portman and Sophie Mas will produce via their MountainA banner, alongside Jonathan King, Ash Sarohia, Tom McCarthy, Rae Baron, Sophie Mas and Zola Elgart Glassman.

The film is about a desperate gallery owner who conspires to sell a dead man at Art Basel Miami.

If the deals were finalized, the film would be a true total package, working with Oscar winner Portman and Ortega, one of Hollywood's biggest rising stars.

Portman is wrapping up her Golden Globe-nominated role in the Netflix drama May December. She recently completed production on the Apple and Skydance adventure picture Fountain of youth.

Ortega is the box office hit Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which just passed the $400 million global box office mark. She is about to begin production on the second season of the Netflix series Wednesday and also has the secret JJ Abrams picture that she will shoot next year.

Best known for her work on Dead pigs and Warner Bros.” birds of prey, Most recently, Yan directed an episode of the final season of the Emmy-winning HBO drama Consequence.

Yan, Portman and Ortega are all represented by CAA. McCarthy and Pedersen are represented by Gersh.