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Australian star 'set for Belfast'

Isla Fisher
Isla Fisher is reported to have agreed to appear in Your Highness

Australian actress Isla Fisher could be joining Natalie Portman in Northern Ireland to film the multi-million dollar film, Your Highness.

According to newspaper reports, the former Home and Away star has signed up to appear in the film, which will be shot in Belfast's Paint Hall.

It is estimated that the film could be worth £10m to the local economy.

Fisher recently played the lead role in Confessions of a Shopaholic, based on the novels by Sophie Kinsella.

She is also reported to have had to put her wedding to comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen on hold so she can take up the role.

The couple, who have been together for seven years, are busy promoting Sacha's new movie, Bruno, which premiered in London earlier this month.

Universal Pictures is funding the comedy, described as a "tale of two spoiled and arrogant princes in a medieval fantasy setting".

James Franco, who starred in Spiderman, will play one of the princes.

Danny McBride, who wrote the script with Ben Best, plays the other prince.

The two princes must complete a quest to save the kingdom.

Richard Williams, of Northern Ireland Screen, travelled to Hollywood with the first and deputy first ministers, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, in March to promote Northern Ireland as a film location.



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