The Lady in the Van "The Lady in the Van" was greenlit on 3 June 2014, with TriStar Productions and BBC Films working together to make the film adaptation of Alan Bennett's West End hit. TriStar won the film rights to handle worldwide distribution, while the BBC was the first to show the film on television in the UK. The involvement of Maggie Smith and Nicholas Hytner was announced simultaneously with the film, but they were attached to the project as early as 9 May (coincidentally Bennett's 80th birthday). Both of them had collaborated with Bennett in the past; Hytner on "The Madness of King
The Lady Outlaw as one of the finest yet shown in Hobart, and the novelty of the subject should bo the means of drawing large houses." The Lady Outlaw The Lady Outlaw is a 1911 Australian silent film set in Van Diemen's Land during convict days. It was also known as "By His Excellency's Command" or "By His Excellency's Command, a Tale of a Lady Outlaw. It is considered a lost film. In the 1860s, Dorothy's lover is transported to Hobart for committing a crime. She follows him there only to discover he has been assigned as a servant to a villainous land