Last summer, The Telegraph reported that Columbia Pictures and CBS Films entered into an agreement to remake the 1964 Lerner and Lowe musical My Fair Lady. The lovely miss Keira Knightley was also attached to be the successor of Audrey Hepburn’s role, the Cockney-but-loveable Eliza Doolittle. This was confirmed  earlier this week.

Knightley has been taking singing lessons ever since the possibility came up, and pre-production started work on getting the permits to shoot on location at the original locations at Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Tottenham Court Road, Wimpole Street, and Ascot racecourse.

The movie is being produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh, while Joe Wright is set to direct, and Emma Thompson is writing the script.

It sounds like this is going to be almost a shot-for-shot style remake, which I’m ok with.

Source: ComingSoon, Cinematical

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