Diana's death to be made into film

13 April 2012

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales is to be made into a film in France.

The 31st of August 1997 will be a fictionalised account of the driver of the mysterious Fiat Uno believed to have clipped Diana's Mercedes moments before the crash.

Based on the novel of the same name by French author Laurence Cosse, it imagines the driver as Lou, a woman in her 30s.

It is only the day after the accident that she realises the car she hit was carrying the Princess.

She becomes tormented by the possibility that her driving caused the crash.
Wracked with guilt and terrified of being tracked down by the police, her life falls apart.

French producers Pierre Kubel and Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar have bought the rights to the novel and are adapting it for the big screen. The film is scheduled for release next year.

Mention-Schaar told entertainment web site screendaily.com: "It's a film that has a real subject - how your life can be totally changed because of an event that really has nothing to do with you. It's a wonderful role for an actress, a total transformation."

The white Fiat Uno is believed to have clipped the Mercedes moments before it entered the Pont d'Alma tunnel.

Despite a massive hunt in France among the 40,000 identical cars in Paris, the vehicle and its driver have never been found.

Mention-Schaar and Kubel were previously behind a film criticised for confusing fact with fiction.

Monsieur N, starring Richard E Grant, depicted the final years of Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on the remote island of St Helena.

Directed by Eurotrash presenter Antoine de Caunes, one critic wrote that it "turns the life and death of Napoleon Bonaparte into a turgid mystery thriller".

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