B4U India: Hollywood gearing up for movie on Diana inquest

Hollywood gearing up for movie on Diana inquest
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ANI India on 04 February, 2008 11:50:00
 
After Helen Mirren making waves at the Oscars with The Queen, another epic on
one of the most publicised members of the Monarchy may be in the pipeline  a
Hollywood production on the life of Princess Diana.
With the proceedings on the Princesss inquest at Londons Royal Courts of
Justice taking a new turn everyday, it certainly makes up for the stuff that
Hollywood movies are made of.
It has now been revealed that showbiz bigwigs are planning to make a
courtroom-based film, with flashback scenes from Dianas life, based on the
dramatic proceedings of the inquest that started a decade after her death.
According to an executive, who works with Hollywood studio New Line Cinema,
America has always been fascinated with the Peoples Princess and it was given
a new shake with the inquest.
Were all hooked by the inquest. Its sensational. Diana was an amazing woman
and she is still very much loved here in the US. There is talk of putting the
latest court proceedings on film in a similar form to The Queen, which was a
movie that everyone went crazy for over here, The Daily Express quote the
executive, as saying.
This has led Tinseltown bigwigs to think that the films would go well with the
masses.
I was working between London and LA when The Queen was released. No word of a
lie but the buzz was bigger in the US. Some of the producers I work with have
been talking about how well a movie about the Diana case would do. It would be
The Queen meets A Few Good Men, I guess. I think once the inquest is over, at
least one  perhaps two  productions will start shooting. It would be a box
office smash, he said.
Many developments in the inquest include how Diana thought she was being bugged
by the secu­rity services, feared she would be assassinated and wanted son
William to be made king over Charles.
It was also revealed how former PM Tony Blair flirted with Diana during a
secret dinner party, while butler Paul Burrell was humiliated when his supposed
secrets about the Princesss life were revealed to be already well known.
(ANI)