Also in Thursday's round-up of news briefs, the Toronto International Film Festival unveils plans for an Asian film summit with some high-profile guests. Senator Patrick Leahy boards Batman pic; Netflix touts record viewership and British comedian Eric Sykes passes at 89.
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Having replaced one-time star Jessica Chastain in the Princess Diana biopic Caught in Flight, Naomi Watts was photographed on the set of the now-filming project, and the resemblance is... uncanny. Maybe it's just the layered period blonde perm or the boxy sensible suit 'n' tights, but Watts looks to have slid quite fittingly into the skin of the late Princess of Wales, who embarks on a torrid love affair with Pakistani-born heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan (played by LOST's Naveen Andrews) in the '90s-set drama.
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"It's an amazing story... what is quite clear is that her [Princess Diana's] life was an amazing life. She was a wagonload of monkeys but she was also an amazing, fascinating, ballsy woman." Producer Stephen Evans, talking to Screen Daily, explained why his $50M take on Princess Diana's life -- leading up to her divorce from Prince Charles, ending before her Dodi Al Fayed years -- is such a no-brainer. ""You don't often get a movie like this where you know, that if you can make it work, it is bomb proof." Classy! [Screen Daily]
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