Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana in new biopic Spencer… depicting the ‘moment she decided her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working’
Twilight star Kristen Stewart has been cast to play Princess Diana in a new period drama about the Royal’s life.
Kristen, 30, has signed on to the movie Spencer, that will dramatize a ‘critical’ weekend in the early 1990s, when Diana decided that her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working, Deadline reports.
The script written by English screenwriter Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) follows the Princess of Wales realising she ‘needed to veer from a path that put her in line to one day be queen.’
Royal role: Kristen Stewart will play Princess Diana in new biopic Spencer… depicting the ‘moment she decided her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working’
The story is said to take place over three days during one of Diana’s final Christmases at the House of Windsor in their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England.
The project is being directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, who directed Natalie Portman in the 2016 Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie, which earned the star a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Per the report, Spencer is expected to be a hot ticket at the virtual Cannes Market, the French film festival which will not be taking place in its usual fashion due to coronavirus.
Princess: Kristen, 30, has signed on to the movie Spencer, that will dramatize a ‘critical’ weekend in the early 1990s, when Diana decided that her marriage to Prince Charles wasn’t working
Production on the film is not expected to begin until early 2021.