Keira Knightley To Play Princess Diana?.... Actress Keira Knightley is being lined up to play Diana, Princess Of Wales in a movie based on the late British royal's life.A controversial book, Diana and the Paparazzi, is at the centre of a bidding war at this year's Cannes Film Festival in France.Film producer Quentin Reynolds, who is bidding for the rights, hopes the movie adaptation will be as popular at the box office as The Queen, which won Dame Helen Mirren a Best Actress Oscar.He says, "Already the word in Hollywood is 'get Knightley'. It's a story that has everything: pathos, tragedy, comedy, adventure...and Princess Diana."For every pound The Queen makes, a film about Diana will make ten."Meanwhile the movie star Keira Knightley is "relieved" to be taking on a new role in latest movie Atonement, because it's more of a challenge than her part in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series.The Pride and Prejudice actress stars alongside James McAvoy as star-crossed lovers in the movie, which is based on the Ian McEwan novel.And the English beauty is grateful for the new role, because it has more depth than that of her Pirates character, Elizabeth Swann.

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