The Princess Diana biopic "Spencer" does not yet exist, but it is still successful. The rental company sold the rights in Cannes.
The production of the biopic "Spencer" by the Chilean director Pablo Larraín (43, "Jackie") is not scheduled to start until early 2021. And yet the planned feature film about Princess Diana (1961-1997) with US actress Kristen Stewart (30, "Twilight") is already a great success. As the industry portal "Deadline" reports, the rental rights for "Spencer" in the virtual marketplace in Cannes have already been sold worldwide.
Specifically, the New York company FilmNation has concluded deals with film distributors in Great Britain, France, Italy and the Benelux countries, Germany and Switzerland (DCM), Australia / NZ, Latin America, Spain and Portugal, South Korea and Japan. The buyers also wanted the biopic in Scandinavia, Canada, CIS / Baltic States, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Pan Asia Pay TV (Disney), Singapore, Greece / Cyprus, Hong Kong, India / Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Taiwan and Thailand to have. Only China is not yet on the list, according to the report.
That's what "Spencer" is all about
According to the industry portal, the film "Spencer" focuses on one of Princess Diana's last Christmas parties in the royal circle. The drama takes place on three days in the early 1990s at the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. Princess Diana noticed at the time that her marriage to Prince Charles was less and less working and she had to find a way out not to end up as Queen of England.
Prince Charles and Diana Spencer married in 1981. In 1992, then Prime Minister John Major (77) announced the official separation of the two in the House of Commons. The divorce occurred in 1996. Lady Di died in 1997 after a car accident in Paris.
Because of the corona pandemic, the annual haggling over film rights at the Cannes Film Festival does not take place as usual on the Côte d'Azur in southern France, but virtually.