Princess Diana movie is totally wrong about our romance says lover Dr Khan

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By: Giles SheldrickPublished: Mon, August 26, 2013

THE lover Princess Diana called “Mr Wonderful” last night panned a Hollywood film about their romance, dismissing it as “completely wrong”.

World-renowned cardiologist Hasnat Khan said he had been left sickened after watching a trailer for the blockbuster movie which is out later this year.

Dr Khan was Diana’s lover for two years before their relationship broke down shortly before her death alongside Dodi Fayed in 1997.

The film - simply called Diana - claims to chart her burgeoning romance with the heart surgeon.

But angry Dr Khan, 54, said: “I don’t see this movie doing at all well.

“It is based on gossip and Diana’s friends talking about a relationship that they didn’t know much about, and some of my relatives who didn’t know much about it either. It is based on hypotheses and gossip.”

The intensely-private surgeon shed fascinating new light on their brief relationship, saying the pair had discussed moving to his native Pakistan together.

He was left cold after seeing a still image of actors Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews at the Harefield Hospital in Middlesex, where Dr Khan and Diana they first met.

He said: “I could tell immediately those were never our mannerisms at all, with my hands folded behind the back and all that.

“You could just tell from that picture that it is all just presumed about how we would behave with each other, and they have got it completely wrong.

“There wasn’t any hierarchy in our relationship. She wasn’t a princess and I wasn’t a doctor.

“We were friends, and normal people stand like friends with each other.

“That one still picture told me a lot about how they will portray things in the film and I can see it is wrong.”

 Single Dr Khan said the pair were so smitten with each other they talked about moving to Pakistan where he would set up a heart hospital and she would work with women’s charities.

Talking about the Princess’s early death he said: “There are a hundred could-have-beens.

“She could be living very happily and married and having more kids, with me or with someone else. It could have led in that direction.

“I try not to think about these things. I can’t change anything now.”

Every year, around the anniversary of his former lover’s death, Dr Khan retreats to Pakistan to escape reminders of the tragedy.

His relationship with Diana broke down just weeks before her death on August 31, 1997, with Dr Khan unable to commit to marriage and the intense media scrutiny leading the pair to call time.


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Colin Firth: Zurich International Film Festival 2013 line-up includes "Devil's Knot" and "The Railway Man."

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
2:06 AM PDT 8/15/2013
by Scott Roxborough

COLOGNE, Germany – A series of high-profile titles will be heading to the Zurich Film Festival this year, with gala premieres of Oliver Hirschbiegel's Lady Di biopic Diana starry Naomi Watts; George Clooney/Sandra Bullock-starrer Gravity from Alfonso Cuaron and period drama The Railway Man from director Jonathan Teplitzky and starring Colin Firth.

Other gala premieres heading to Zurich for the 9th annual international festival this year include Atom Egoyan's latest, Devil's Knot, a crime drama which also features Firth alongside co-star Reese Witherspoon; J.C. Chandor's acclaimed one-man survival drama All is Lost featuring Robert Redford, which premiered in Cannes; David Gordon Green's Joe, which stars Nicolas Cage as a redemptive ex-con; and best agers romantic comedy Le Weekend from Notting Hill director Roger Michell starring  Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a British couple who take a second honeymoon trip to Paris in an attempt to rekindle their marriage.

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Naomi "kept character" for Diana

INDEPENDENT WOMAN

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03 AUGUST, 2013

King Kong actress Naomi Watts was so determined to portray Diana, Princess of Wales accurately that she stayed in character even off camera, her co-star has revealed.

Canadian star Cas Anvar plays Diana's boyfriend Dodi Fayed in the movie about the last two years of her life and he has revealed that making the film was an intense experience.

 "I had heard about Naomi before, that she was part British and part Australian, and I was expecting a little bit of banter but she was so in character even when we weren't shooting.

"She was so poised and gracious and in control in the same way Diana was always in control. That was actually a very powerful energy as the other actor and it helped me interact with her."


READ MORE HERE: http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/naomi-kept-character-for-diana-29469988.html

‘Diana’ Trailer: Naomi Watts is the People’s Princess by Kofi Outlaw (SCREEN RANT)

Watts already has been nominated for two Oscars, but is definitely angling for a third with her new film Diana, a biopic memoir about the last two years of Princess Diana’s life, following her divorce from Prince Charles.  Watch the teaser trailer for the film above; the movie comes by way of German director Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Experiment) and acclaimed UK playwright-turned-screenwriter, Stephen Jeffreys.

Much like The Iron Lady Teaser Trailer, this teaser for Diana is meant to succinctly introduce Watts in the role of an icon – and it’s a strong match, if this footage is anything to judge by. Of course, unlike that initial Iron Lady trailer, this teaser does not go so far as to show any scenes of Watts actually speaking, which is sure to be a rather large hinging point for the millions of Diana fans out there, who will be scrutinizing every frame of this film.

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READ MORE: http://screenrant.com/diana-trailer-2013-movie-naomi-watts/

Dame Helen Mirren To Reveal Secrets Of Queen’s Appointments With Prime Ministers In New Play (ROYAL CENTRAL)

It’s now been almost 7 years since the controversial film The Queen his our screens and now, Dame Helen Mirren and more well-known faces are to take to the stage to perform The Queen’s meetings with her Prime Ministers in front of thousands in a paying audience.

The original film depicts the Monarchy’s struggle to understand what the people want and how various Prime Ministers have helped and been helped by the Monarch over her 60 year reign.

This new on stage play was announced a few months ago and now it has emerged that Helen Mirren is to meetings between Her Majesty The Queen and her Prime Ministers

The much anticipated play will reveal which Prime Ministers The Queen was closest to, the political audiences she dreaded and how Sir John Major played an unlikely role as marriage counsellor to the Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Colin Firth, Helen Mirren: Colin Firth And Helen Mirren To Reprise British Monarch Roles In Separate Gigs (MOVIE LINE)

NEWSWIRE || BY: BRIAN BROOKS || SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 03:25 PM EDT


Colin Firth won an Oscar playing Britain's King George VI in the 2010 historical drama The King's Speech. And Dame Helen Mirren won her Academy Award playing the current U.K. monarch Queen Elizabeth II back in 2006 for her role in The Queen. Now both are set to wear their crowns again in two separate projects.

Firth played Elizabeth II's father, George VI in the Tom Hooper-directed feature about the WWII-era king who ascended the throne after his more dashing older brother abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson in a scandal that rocked the British Empire even as the clouds of war gathered in Europe. Also starring Helena Bonham Carter as his wife, Elizabeth, the film focused on the shy George VI, known to relatives and close friends as Bertie, who overcame a severe speech impediment to help lead his country to face the Nazi threat.


Mirren, meanwhile, will take on the role of George VI's heir, Queen Elizabeth II in a new stage play written by The Queen author Peter Morgan, according to The Guardian. Stephen Daldry will direct The Audience, which will explore her confidential meetings with her long line of British Prime Ministers from her first as a young Queen, Winston Churchill, to the current office holder, David Cameron. In The Queen, she meets with '90s-era P.M. Tony Blair (played by Michael Sheen) around the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales capturing a period of great tumult for the British royal family.

Read More at: http://movieline.com/2012/09/24/colin-firth-helen-mirren/

Naomi Watts stars as the British princess whose death in a Paris car crash made headlines around the world in 1997. (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

LONDON -- The buzz biopic of British icon Princess Diana, starring Naomi Watts as the lady in question, has a new name.


Oliver Hirschbiegel's big-screen portrait, originally touted to buyers during Berlin and then Cannes this year as Caught in Flight, has been retitled as simply Diana.

Shooting on the film produced by U.K. production company Ecosse Films is under way, with Watts starring alongside Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodge and Juliet Stevenson.



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