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Is Keira Knightley Your New Fair Lady?
Keira Knightley by Mike Marsland/WireImage.com
Keira Knightley is close to signing on to play Eliza Doolittle — the simple flower girl transformed into a refined lady — in an update of the London-based classic My Fair Lady.
Producers of the film — which include British theater producer Cameron Mackintosh — plan to adapt Alan Jay Lerner's orignal story more fully by drawing upon George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, from which My Fair Lady is heavily influenced.
Producers also plan to shoot at specific locations in London described in the story, set in 1912.
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Jun 6, 2008 5:18 PM
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Is this going to be a musical? If so, hopefully the actor playing Henry Higgins can do more than speak-sing. I'm fine with Keira Knightley, but nobody can top Audrey Hepburn in my view. However, I never did get why Eliza fell in love with Rex Harrison's Henry.
I just hope that this doesn't turn into a train-wreck of a remake. I'm trying to think of a modern remake of a classic that turned out well, and I can't think of one. I'm not saying that there isn't one, just that I can't remember any. 
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Jun 6, 2008 6:31 PM
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The whole concept of a My Fair Lady remake , makes me nervous! It sounds like this remake, may adapt the original Pygmalion different than My Fair Lady adapted the orginal Pygmalion?? Maybe?
As for other remakes gone good or bad:
If one could justly compare Clooney and gang to the Rat Pack, I'd say the Ocean's remakes were thumbs up.
On the flip side, I think the Sabrina remake failed to live up to Audrey and Humphrey.
Well those are the 2 that come to mind at the moment...
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Jun 6, 2008 8:00 PM
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Ugh. Can't hollywood come up with new ideas. What's next, remakes of Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Citizen Kane?
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Jun 6, 2008 8:31 PM
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ladyofthelake give it another few years, I'm sure they will be remaking all of those.
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Jun 6, 2008 9:18 PM
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And here I thought I wasn't going to throw up today.
Thanks Hollywood!
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Jun 7, 2008 10:56 AM
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I'll lay money that they will at least talk to Hugh Jackman as Henry Higgins. He has the looks, the demeanor, and the musical chops. He's probably #1 on their list.
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Jun 7, 2008 2:34 PM
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This is a joke, right?
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Jun 7, 2008 3:56 PM
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Please! I like Kiera...great in all the Pirate flicks; marginal as Elizabeth in Pride& Prejudice...just not the right image. Good in Atonement. Cannot see her as Eliza Dolittle. Get someone new/unknown/fresh....
\Thank you!
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Jun 7, 2008 9:02 PM
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In teaching her to be a proper lady; will Henry Higgins also teach her to eat something??
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Jun 8, 2008 5:52 PM
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Why? What's next, The Sound of Music Remake. This is blasphemy!
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Jun 9, 2008 11:50 AM
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Stargazer_1682--You crack me up! You managed to say what I am thinking everytime I see Keira Knightley. About a My Fair Lady remake, first off, maybe it could be better than the original like the remake of The Music Man. Even though I love Audrey Hepburn, I never liked the film very much. Rex Harrison might have been great on Broadway, but on film he was a dud and they had zero chemistry. And Audrey, as much as I love most of her films, should never have been cast in the role Julie Andrews owned. If this remake is going to be a musical, they need to cast someone who can really sing as Eliza. Someone suggested Hugh Jackman as Henry Higgins--that would work, but Keira?? Don't know if she sings, but I really can't picture her in the role. You would think she is the only young actress in England since she seems to get all the plum roles in British films.
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Jun 9, 2008 11:53 AM
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No problem lark37; I'm a warm blooded, heterosexual male, but I can't stand the Skeletor look with women. It's not attractive.
Although, I'm surprised to read someone liked the remake of the Music Man. I hated that movie; although I'm probably biased, I grew up watching the original all the time. That was, for me, the movie I'd watch all the time and drove the babysitter crazy; particularly when I'd want to watch it again after having just watched it.
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Jun 9, 2008 12:07 PM
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stargazer_1682--I am a singer and vocal performance coach. The original music man movie drives me crazy because Shirley Jones was not a good singer--she had pitch problems. She did alright in Oklahoma and Carousel, but compared to Kristen Chenowyth (the remake) she really didn't have it. And Robert Preston had about as much appeal to women as a dead worm--hey just like Rex Harrison. Some stage stars just do NOT make a the transition well to the silver screen. Although, it sounds like this remake will be more of a true version of Pygmalion. Interesting perspective from a male though about Keira Knightley, I was under the impression that most guys found her really hot.
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Jun 9, 2008 12:16 PM
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Good lord no. Fit is good, but there is such a thing as too skinny and I wish some of them would get out of their heads that it's otherwise. When their bicep is the same diameter as their wrist, or you can see their ribs cage through their skin....How is that sexy?
Then some of them get so damn thin, they start getting the bobble head effect going on. It's disgusting; and a lot of women who were really attractive, wrecked it when they lost too much weight. And once they go that way, they almost never look the way they used to, when they try to put it back on.
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Jun 9, 2008 4:34 PM
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