Producers revealed that Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last two years of the popular royal's life and not Jessica Chastain as was reported in early November.
Britain's Ecosse Films says Caught in Flight will focus on the 24 months before Diana's tragic death in a Paris car crash in August 1997.
The film will be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, best known for Downfall, a look at Hitler's last days, and written by Stephen Jeffreys, who penned The Libertine.
Filmmakers said Thursday the biopic "charts how finding true personal happiness for the first time" allowed Diana to find her role as "a major international campaigner and humanitarian."
The Australia-born Watts, who scored an Oscar nom for 21 Grams and recently starred in Dream House and J. Edgar, said she was honoured to get the role. "Princess Diana was loved across the world and I look forward to rising to the challenge of playing her on screen," she said in a statement.
Filming will begin later this year.
And Chastain won't be hurting for work as she's got Katheryn Bigelow's untitled Osama bin Laden project up next, not to mention The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby with Joel Edgerton and Broadway's The Heiress.
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