{"id":84117,"date":"2018-08-14T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/08\/14\/elizabeth-banks-to-star-in-produce-on-the-day-a-wyoming-hotel-maid-won-a-dream-date-with-prince\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:36:04","slug":"elizabeth-banks-to-star-in-produce-on-the-day-a-wyoming-hotel-maid-won-a-dream-date-with-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/elizabeth-banks-to-star-in-produce-on-the-day-a-wyoming-hotel-maid-won-a-dream-date-with-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks To Star In & Produce ‘On The Day A Wyoming Hotel Maid Won A Dream Date With Prince’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Banks To Star In & Produce ‘On The Day A Wyoming Hotel Maid Won A Dream Date With Prince’<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

August 14, 2018<\/p>\n

Source: Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

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Deadline<\/a> is reporting that Paramount Players has optioned Chris Lee<\/strong>\u2019s Daily Beast story When Prince Made a Chambermaid His Queen for a Day<\/a><\/strong>. Elizabeth Banks<\/strong> plans to star in Queen For A Day, and she is producing it with Max Handelman<\/strong> through their Brownstone banner along with Josh Stolber<\/strong>g and David Klawans<\/strong>. Scott Neustadter & Michael Weber<\/strong> are exec producers with Brownstone\u2019s Alison Small.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve just set Flora Greeson<\/strong> to rewrite a first draft by Stolberg about the chaos that occurred in 1986 when Warner Bros hatched a contest to draw attention to Prince\u2019s Purple Rain followup Under The Cherry Moon.<\/p>\n

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The studio staged Win A Date With Prince, an MTV contest in which the 10,000th caller won a date with the rock star. Actually, more than a date: the studio would stage a premiere of Prince\u2019s film in the winner\u2019s hometown, followed by a concert toplined by Prince and The Revolution. The winner was Lisa Barber<\/strong>, a young lady in Sheridan, Wyoming who cleaned hotels and was a big Motley Crue fan. The movie is inspired by an article about the Cinderella story date, but the movie will be about how the event changed the lives of two very different women \u2013 the Manhattan PR exec responsible for the event\u2019s success and the shy, awkward contest winner from Wyoming, whose town becomes the unexpected nexus of all things Prince for one unforgettable night.<\/p>\n

Prince himself will not be played by an actor though his presence will hover through the film.<\/strong> The movie will focus on the herculean effort that went into organizing an event that brought the 5\u20193\u2033 purple-clad rock icon to a small cowboy town and established his date as a reluctant media sensation. As the article implied \u201cbehind the scenes, coke-fueled chaos reigned.\u201d<\/p>\n