Keira Knightley is My Fair Lady

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45737

Source: Variety
June 6, 2008


Variety reports that Columbia Pictures is developing a My Fair Lady remake, with Keira Knightley in talks to star as Eliza Doolittle, the simple Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a lady.

The film is being produced by Duncan Kenworthy (Love Actually, Notting Hill) and London legit maven Cameron Mackintosh.

CBS Films, which owns the film rights to the Lerner & Loewe musical, will co-produce and Sony will distribute.

You can read much more on the plans for the film here!

Another period movie for Keira and a remake to boot.

 

[terry78]

"Aw, bloody 'ell! I gone and wet meself!"

 

[oakzap425]

So, does this prove she can't act? Because I've been saying this **** for years, now.

 

[The Lizard]

A remake of My Fair Lady? Why? Why? WHY?!?

 

[DorkyFresh]

i wouldn't mind a remake to this. it's one of my guilty pleasures, but Kiera Knightley rubs me the wrong way.

 

[Raiden]

Is Keira Knightley going to sing in this movie? Or will they dub her voice like they did to Audrey Hepburn when she did it in the original? It's too bad that Julie Andrews never played Eliza Doolittle on the big screen since she made the role famous in the Broadway show.

 

[Darkfly]

Oh dear fluffy Lord Zedd, Keira can't act for **** let alone try to do a Cockney accent over that OTT posh voice of hers.

 

[Movies205]

My Fair Lady is awesome, why are they making this?

 

[Raiden]

My Fair Lady is awesome, why are they making this?

Don't you know? Remakes are all the rage in Hollywood these days.

 

[GhostPoet]

Maybe in this movie we finally find out she's really a man.

It could be a twist in the film!

 

[Immortalfire]

Oh my freakin god...no, please no.

 

[Movies205]

Don't you know? Remakes are all the rage in Hollywood these days.

I usually don't care... If you see most of my posts, Robocop and various other action movies, I'm down but I really don't see the point of htis... My Fair Lady is great because of Rex Harrison and Audry Hepburn

 

[Raiden]

I usually don't care... If you see most of my posts, Robocop and various other action movies, I'm down but I really don't see the point of htis... My Fair Lady is great because of Rex Harrison and Audry Hepburn

Well, they already remade classics like Sabrina and Psycho, and I don't think there's a sacred cow when it comes to Hollywood remakes.

 

[GhostPoet]

I kinda liked the remake of Sabrina though........

 

[DACrowe]

WTF? Why are the remaking arguably the best film musical of all time and if not certainly in the top 10?

I actually like Knightley and think she is a talented actress. I don't get her hate other than her overnight success and being in the Pirate movies and something tells me if she was more...endowed, fanboys on the web would love her (Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Elisha Cuthbert spring to mind). I thought she was quite good in Pride & Prejudice and excellent in Atonement.

But she is too reliant on the period piece. And can she sing? Trying to top Audrey Hepburn is a very tall challenge. And I know that Hepburn's "polished" singing voice (90% of her songs) were dubbed. But I always thought that was wrong as Hepburn wanted to sing it and besides we are past the days of dubbing leads in musicals. You either have to do it now or you shouldn't do it (like Gerard Butler).

And no one--I repeat no one--will EVER be able to replace or top Rex Harrison in the role of Professor Higgins. This just sounds like a bad idea all around. And resetting it in a realistic setting...musicals work best in the surreal and heightened reaily of our world. Otherwise it can come off as quite cheesy (West Side story springs to mind pretty quickly as does Rent's film production).

Time will tell.

 

[GhostPoet]

I think the guys in charge are betting on most people of the younger generation having not seen the original. In which case they would likely be right.

 

[DACrowe]

double post

 

[DACrowe]

Mark my words no one will ever make a film remake of either Gone with the Wind or Casablanca. I'll add Citizen Kane and To Kill a Mockingbird to that list. Godfather and Jaws probably wouldn't get remakes...but there is a silm chance someday people will be desperate enough to return to those movies.

Otherwise, no. All other movies are "remakable" at any time.

 

[terry78]

Mark my words no one will ever make a film remake of either Gone with the Wind or Casablanca. I'll add Citizen Kane and To Kill a Mockingbird to that list. Godfather and Jaws probably wouldn't get remakes...but there is a silm chance someday people will be desperate enough to return to those movies.

Otherwise, no. All other movies are "remakable" at any time.

Yeah, you'd think that.

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

i love keira and i think she is a very very talented actress, but damn how many period pieces is the girl going to do??

 

[Raiden]

But she is too reliant on the period piece. And can she sing? Trying to top Audrey Hepburn is a very tall challenge. And I know that Hepburn's "polished" singing voice (90% of her songs) were dubbed. But I always thought that was wrong as Hepburn wanted to sing it and besides we are past the days of dubbing leads in musicals. You either have to do it now or you shouldn't do it (like Gerard Butler).

Yeah, I really like Phantom of the Opera movie, but I don't think Butler sang the Phantom songs quite as well.

 

[Frodo]

Actually I could see her in the role. Audrey Hepburn had alot to prove herself considering Julie Andrews did it before her . @ the time Hepburn got it ,it was controversal because the role was Andrews's on Broadway .

There you go , a little factoid.

 

[DACrowe]

Yeah and because of that the Academy snubbed Hepburn's exceptional performance at the Oscars the following year, even though Harrison, the actor who played her father and the picture won the Oscars and the director was nominated. Then the next year they made her present the Oscar to Julie Andrews for (I think it was) Merry Poppins.

It was a pretty curel backlash as I liked Hepburn in the role a lot. But even though I think Keira Knightley is a pretty good actress with a lot of potential...she's no Audrey Hepburn.

You know Emmy Rossum wouldn't be a bad Elisa if she could play crude for the first half correctly. Either way this should NOT be remade. It ain't "My Fair Lady" without Rex Harrison.

 

[Raiden]

Yeah and because of that the Academy snubbed Hepburn's exceptional performance at the Oscars the following year, even though Harrison, the actor who played her father and the picture won the Oscars and the director was nominated. Then the next year they made her present the Oscar to Julie Andrews for (I think it was) Merry Poppins.

It was a pretty curel backlash as I liked Hepburn in the role a lot. But even though I think Keira Knightley is a pretty good actress with a lot of potential...she's no Audrey Hepburn.

You know Emmy Rossum wouldn't be a bad Elisa if she could play crude for the first half correctly. Either way this should NOT be remade. It ain't "My Fair Lady" without Rex Harrison.

I thought that role should've gone to Julie Andrews because she did earn the right to play Eliza Doolittle, but what the Academy did to Audrey Hepburn was rather cruel and uncalled for. I like your choice of Emmy Rossum as Eliza, however.