No ‘My Fair Lady’ For Keira!!!

Keira Knightley will not play Eliza Doolittle in the new movie version of My Fair Lady.
The Oscar-nominated actress, currently energising the London theatre scene with her stage debut in The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre, has withdrawn herself from consideration for the role created by Audrey Hepburn in the landmark film based on the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical.
Over a period of two years, the 24-year-old star met producers Cameron Mackintosh and Duncan Kenworthy to discuss the possibility of playing the Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a Maycould fair lady after she meets Professor Henry Higgins.

Although strongly linked with the role (she had singing lessons and sang for Mackintosh), Keira was never officially offered the part. She is believed to have felt that the project was taking too long to get off the ground.

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By Michaella Filed in Articles, Gossip, Keira, My Fair Lady, News 5 Comments

Dec01

John Madden to Direct ‘My Fair Lady’

The rain in Spain might fall on the plains for director John Madden.

The Brit director, perhaps best known for 1998’s ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ could take on George Bernard Shaw if he does indeed direct the Columbia Pictures remake of ‘My Fair Lady,’ as reported by Variety. Madden is in talks to come on board the reboot, which does not have a Prof. Higgins or an Eliza Doolittle attached. Keira Knightley’s name has been oft repeated to play Eliza, but — as she told Moviefone earlier this year — nothing so far has been signed.

Read the rest of the article, here.

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Nov07

Joe Wright Will NOT Direct ‘My Fair Lady’

So, this just in. Joe Wright will NOT, I repeat will not be directing ‘My Fair Lady’.

When we reported earlier this week that Keira Knightley would star in a Joe Wright-directed remake of My Fair Lady, we were already getting conflicting reports that neither Knightley nor Wright had a thing to do with the movie.

Now we have confirmation from one participant, at least. Screenrush caught up with Wright on the red carpet at the London Film Festival, and he assured them that the reports of him directing My Fair Lady are “all a lie.”

Interestingly, he couldn’t say much about Knightley’s participation– “Keira might well do it”– which probably mean the years-old reports about Knightley being in the film are still valid. Below you can see Wright’s rebuttal for yourself, including what seems to be utter bewilderment that anyone would make up this story to begin with.

Source: here & here.

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Jan13

My Fair Lady: Thompson Wants Laurie as Higgins

From weblogs.variety.com, thank to keiraweb.com:

Emma Thompson has won Oscars for both acting (Howard’s End) and writing (Sense and Sensibility). And she is coming to accept how satisfying both can be. “I always thought acting was my compulsion,” she says,” but that writing was a different form of creativity because it is so back to the knuckle. Acting is a natural thing because you are using your body, it’s like singing. I was wrong about that. Both can answer the same need. I feel better after writing for two hours.”

Thompson is back in her fave Bel Air Hotel bungalow promoting Last Chance Harvey, an unassuming romantic comedy that Joel Hopkins wrote for her some eight years ago. She revived it by bringing in as her leading man her co-star on Stranger than Fiction, Dustin Hoffman. “There are no special effects, no sub-plots, no heroes, no villains,” she says. “It’s just people talking and acting and falling in love and the obstacles that arise within the soul.”