First Look: ‘Diana’ Trailer and Movie Photos

“An icon adored by millions…the most famous woman in the world who became the People’s Princess. The legend is never the whole story.”

Naomi Watts tackles the role of the beloved Princess Diana in Diana, a dramatic film from director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall). eOne Films has just released a first teaser trailer for the film along with a few official photos of Watts as the Princess of Wales. And while the trailer contains no dialogue, it does convey the tone of the movie and shows off Watts in character as Princess Di.

The Plot:

Diana takes audiences into the private realm of one the world’s most iconic and inescapably public women — the Princess of Wales, Diana (Watts) — in the last two years of her meteoric life. On the occasion of the 16th anniversary of her sudden death, acclaimed director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) explores Diana’s final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews), the human complications of which reveal the Princess’s climactic days in a compelling new light.

Hirschbiegel directs from a screenplay by award-winning playwright Stephen Jeffreys, inspired by the book Diana: Her Last Love by Kate Snell, which was in turn drawn from extensive interviews with close friends and confidantes. The result is a window into the tumultuous, change-filled period from 1995-1997, in the wake of Diana’s shattering divorce from Prince Charles, and at the moment when she stood on the cusp of adifferent life, evolving into a global humanitarian, a master of maneuvering fame and becoming her own woman.

eOne Films is planning a fall 2013 theatrical release.

Naomi Watts in Diana
Naomi Watts as Princess Diana in ‘Diana’ (Photo Courtesy of eOne Films)