Owen Wilson is in negotiations to star opposite Natalie Portman in the Scott Rudin/Paramount Pictures feature "The Smoker." Richard Linklater is set to direct the film that follows a teacher at an all-girls' school whose student proposes to him. Wilson's recent films include "The Wedding Crashers," "Cars," "The Wendell Baker Story" and "The Life Aquatic."

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