What the buzz? Keira Knightley will be playing Eliza Doolitle in a remake of My Fair Lady?
Audrey Hepburn and Keira Knightley
The Telegraph reported Friday that director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) has been tapped to direct the film and that Keira Knightley has won the lead role. However, Celebrity Mania has reported that she has NOT officially been chosen for the role and that her agent had not known anything about production of the film.
Rumors are still ablaze that the actress has beat out Scarlett Johansson for the role and that she is taking singing lessons in preparation for the part. Celebrity Mania confirmed that those lessons are actually for a London play called “The Misanthrope.”
I have to say, My Fair Lady is in my top 3 Audrey Hepburn films (next to Funny Face and Breakfast at Tiffany’s). It was brilliantly done and I can see why some people get upset when a great movie gets re-made. But I have to say that if it’s going to happen, Keira Knightley would be the best Eliza Doolittle that I can think of. Aside from the fact that I think she looks an awful lot like the gorgeous, Ms. Hepburn, she has very similar mannerisms. She is graceful, sophisticated, oh and British. I’ve never heard the girl sing but if she’s taking lessons now, that’s probably all the prep she’s going to need for singing ”Just You Wait ‘Enry ‘Iggins.” (Conversely, I don’t care how cool Scarlett thinks she is for covering Tom Waits, her singing makes me want to shove a pencil in my eardrum). And I’m sure she could pull off a Cockney accent, being y’know, British. I can just imagine her now saying “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains” about a hundred times and sounding exactly like Ms. Hepburn.
2 Comments
November 15, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Why why why are they remaking this movie?! I wish they would just leave it alone! I agree that Keira is a much better choice than Scarlett, though I find both of them quite annoying. If these rumors are true, I hope the new movie isn’t an epic failure…not ALL re-makes suck, but the undertaking is certainly tricky.
November 16, 2009 at 12:15 am
Well, I think you will luck out on this one. Since I wrote this, Joe Wright stepped down from the project so there is no director. I doubt anyone else will be willing to take it on because the original is such a highly revered classsic. It’d be like trying to re-make the original Casablanca or Mary Poppins.