Diana & Me

Diana & Me is a 1997 Australian romantic comedy film directed by David Parker and starring Toni Collette, Dominic West and John Simm.[2]

Diana & Me
Directed byDavid Parker
Written byMatt Ford
Based ona screenplay by Elizabeth Coleman
StarringToni Collette
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box office$205,783 (Australia)[1]

Plot

An Australian named Diana Spencer travels to London to try to get a glimpse of her namesake, Diana, Princess of Wales. Just as she is about to shake hands with the princess, she is pushed out of the way by a photographer. While she is furious with him at first, they slowly strike up a relationship.

Cast

Production

The original script was by Elizabeth Coleman. According to David Parker, the original female lead was older and more like Shirley Valentine. Parker then worked on the script with Matt Ford for 18 months.[3] Shooting finished in December 1996 and post production was completed in Easter 1997 by release planned for August. However these plans were thrown into confusion when Princess Diana was killed in a car accident. Parker and Ford spent six weeks reworking the film, adding some new sequences and narration. David Parker later said:

There was nowhere to go with that film. We did shoot a new little top and tail for it primarily to place the movie within the past so that it would at least work chronologically. But it appeared it wasn't enough. We either came out too early with it or such was the response to Princess Diana in life and death that we were completely on the wrong page, a film that could be released only after her death.[4]

References
  1. Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office
  2. BFI.org
  3. Andrew Urban, "PARKER, DAVID: DIANA & ME", Urban Cinefile accessed 19 November 2012
  4. "Interview with David Parker", Signet, 10 September 1998 accessed 19 November 2012


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