HOME TRAILERS RELEASE DATES PODCASTS REVIEWS POSTERS INTERVIEWS BOB $TENCIL NEWS FEEDS ABOUT APPS

LATEST NEWS

Natalie Portman & Ashton Kutcher are 'Friends with Benefits'

by Ethan Anderton
March 17, 2010

Because fragments of today's society are all up in arms about obscenity, there was no chance in hell we'd ever see a movie released and rated by the MPAA called Fuckbuddies, a highly praised script that appeared at #6 on the 2008 Black List. We will however see a film called Friends with Benefits, which is the new title of the Liz Meriwether scripted comedy as the news about Ghostbusters 3 from Vulture mentions that Ivan Reitman is up for directing the sex driven comedy which will star Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher as two friends in a solely sexual relationship who develop true romantic feelings for each other.

Described as "an inverse When Harry Met Sally," one insider simply said that "it's pretty much what you'd expect from a spec script that was originally entitled Fuckbuddies." So there will be buddies and they will be going to town on each others nether regions. Meriwether is one of the members (the youngest in fact) of a group of female writers known as the "Fempire." This elite group consists of Dana Fox (What Happens in Vegas), Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer's Body) and Lorene Scafaria (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist). I have the script, but I haven't read it yet. However, now that Natalie Portman will be my mind's visualization of the presumably plentiful romantic scenes, it just might be time to finally give it a read through. However, it's kind of weird that both of them looks exactly like the other would look as the opposite sex. Think about it.

Explore tags: Casting, Movie News, Opinions

People's Champ

They should call it "Fuckin you til someone better comes along" No way in hell I wanna see Kutcher doing whatever to Natalie Portman. Dude is a major douche!
John

I would prefer Topher Grace. At least he seems like a nice guy and not a major a-hole like Kutcher.
Mony

Boring, so they screw each other and then they fall for one another. that can go straight to dvd plz. It would be so easy to predict.
http://www.boxmusique.com David

Mmmmmm Natalie Portman...
flynne

I want to read the script!
Sharlto

this is called . . . porn
JimD

Oh God Natalie Portman is worthy of more then Ashton Kutcher.. Ugh. Thats like mixing gold with a turd.
http://issarae.com Issa Rae

Read the script. I hope Natalie Portman makes "Emma" more likeable. Otherwise, it's pretty funny.
Fuelbot

This was my favorite script on the 2008 Black List. Fuck this movie. Everything Liz Meriwether will be filtered into shit.
marina

Isn't there already a movie with the same plot, also already called Friends with benefits? Hmmm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896811/
Babs

Ashton and Natalie can pull this off and because it's her first official rom-com, he is the perfect leading man for her. I was apprehensive until I read the script it's ike it was written with these two in mind. No one is better in these roles than Ashton.
monique

I love Ashton and Natlie their both phonamanal actors and why is everybody hating on Ashton I think they will be 2gether is this movie.
Babs

It's mostly the men who hat this idea and Ashton so much. When me get jealous of tall hot looking men they always say the same negative things. That also goes for if the writer is female. None of it matters because the bottom line rules and these two have many more lovers that haters and we are the ones who pay to see their work. We are the ones that matter.