What’s one of the coolest ‘credible’ movies of all time? Simple, Leon (DVDs). It’s even liked by facsimile film school twits who won’t normally watch anything that isn’t Latvian or doesn’t feature eight thousand pages of dialogue. And even the Sting song at the end doesn’t spoil it.

Must be good, then.

A sequel to director Luc Besson’s Leon – known as The Professional in America – has been thrown about internet movie chatrooms like a midget on a stag night. Nobody thought it would ever come to much because nobody from the original movie was showing much interest.

Not true any more. Shaven (headed) sweetheart Natalie Portman (DVDs) has got us all excited to the point of a bathroom trip over this throwaway comment:

“I’d jump at the chance.”

That’s what she told Moviehole.net. She’d "jump at the chance" of making a sequel to Leon. That’s gotta be better than hearing that Kevin Sorbo has  just bought the rights, surely?

Miss Portman goes onto inform Moviehole that she’s already seen a treatment for the follow up and is "just waiting for the call".

Bravo! Get her that cool haircut back (best chick ‘do in film?) and give her a hand grenade. With Uncle Leon no longer around to get in the way looking all sweet with his oversized cartons of milk, Portman’s Matilda is free to kill anyone she wants.

"The script’s really great, and near worth delaying a vacation for.” the former Star Wars actress recently told People Magazine. “The only problem would be that I would have to hit the gym again."

Still, bright side, after being all grown up from that taken-in-by-a-kindly-hitman little girl in the original Leon, she won’t need to do any more dodgy dressing up.

Jesus, that Chaplin was worrying.

[story by Chris Laverty]