Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.For Neon’s not-precisely-biographical Spencer, screenwriter Steven Knight and filmmaker Pablo Larraín assiduously wanted to avoid anything resembling a conventional biopic feel when exploring the suffocatingly cloistered and constantly scrutinized life of Princess Diana of Wales (played, in a bravura turn, by Kristen Stewart) over the course of the Christmas holiday weekend with her in-laws, England’s Royal Family, in 1991.Instead, they were looking to craft an impressionistic, fable-like take on Diana’s discomfort in her regal role.
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