Kristen Stewart will play Princess Diana in “Spencer,” a new biopic drama that hails from “Jackie” director Pablo Larrain. Filming is expected to begin in early 2021.
“Locke” and “Eastern Promises” writer Steven Knight penned the film which unfolds entirely over a three day period from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day in the early 1990s at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England.
It’s there Diana decides her marriage to Prince Charles isn’t working and she gives up a path that put her in line to one day be queen. Larrain aims for this to be the antithesis of the fairytale prince and princess trope. Speaking to Deadline he says:
“When someone decides not to be the queen, and says, I’d rather go and be myself, it’s a big big decision, a fairy tale upside down. I’ve always been very surprised by that and thought it must have been very hard to do. That is the heart of the movie. How and why do you decide to do that? It’s a great universal story that can reach millions and millions of people, and that’s what we want to do.”
Larrain, Juan de Dios, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski and Paul Webster produce the film which won’t deal with Diana’s tragic death years later.
