MUMBAI: Jessica Chastain will play the late Diana, Princess of Wales in a romantic biopic titled Caught in Flight, according to movie blog Thompson on Hollywood.

Chastian follows Meryl Streep who played Margaret Thatcher earlier or Anne Hathaway who played Jane Austen.

Caught in Flight will depict a secret two-year affair the princess had with heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan from 1995, that would be presented as a "love story between a princess locked in a tower and an ordinary man".

The script of the film has been written by The Libertine‘s Steven Jeffreys and would be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.

The film‘s pre-production will start in March 2012 under British production company Ecosse Films while it will be shot in Pakistan, Angola, the South of France and Paris.