This is a big month for Daily Beast stories being optioned into movies. One more and it's an official trend.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon just picked up the McDonald's scam story. Now Elizabeth Banks will produce and co-star in "Queen for a Day," based on Chris Lee's 2017 Daily Beast story, "When Prince Made a Chambermaid His Queen For a Day."

Here's the subhed for that story:

"In 1986, a young motel chambermaid won an MTV dream date with Prince in her tiny Wyoming hometown. On TV, it seemed like a fairy tale. Behind the scenes, coke-fueled chaos reigned."

Elizabeth Banks won't play the young chambermaid winner. More on her role below.

According to Deadline, Flora Greeson is now writing the script, following what happened after hotel cleaner and heavy metal fan Lisa Barber of Sheridan, Wyoming was the 10,000th caller in the Win A Date With Prince contest. The "date" included a screening of Prince’s film, followed by a concert led by Prince and The Revolution.

Here's a curious note in Deadline's story:

"Prince himself will not be played by an actor though his presence will hover through the film."

Guess that answers the question of who would play the late legend?

Instead, Deadline continued, "the movie will focus on the herculean effort that went into organizing an event that brought the 5’3″ purple-clad rock icon to a small cowboy town and established his date as a reluctant media sensation."

The film will also focus on how the contest changed the lives of two women -- the "shy, awkward" winner herself, and the Manhattan PR executive responsible for the event's success.

Elizabeth Banks will play the PR exec, Robyn Riggs. (Effie Trinket would approve.) So that means we still have to learn who'll play the other lead, of 20-year-old contest winner Lisa Barber. (Is Kate Bosworth too old now? She already won a date with Tad Hamilton, so...)

Read the full Daily Beast story for background on the real life story, and stay tuned for more details on the film as the script is finalized and moves forward.

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