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Keira Knightley eyes My Fair Lady remake
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Friday June 6, 2008
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Set to sing ... Keira Knightley. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP


Keira Knightley is in talks to follow in the footsteps of Audrey Hepburn and star in a remake of My Fair Lady. The 23-year-old will star as Eliza Doolittle, the humble cockney flower girl who makes good in Edwardian high society.

Producers will keep the story rooted in 1912 London and are in talks with actors to star opposite Knightley as Doolittle's upper-crust tutor, Henry Higgins.

My Fair Lady is Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of Pygmalion, a stage-play by George Bernard Shaw. The production broke box office records when it debuted on Broadway in 1956 and made a star of the young Julie Andrews. The 1964 film version, starring Hepburn and Rex Harrison, went on to win eight Oscars. It featured the songs I Could Have Danced All Night, Wouldn't it Be Lovely and Get Me to the Church on Time.

Bernard Shaw's plot has become something of a Hollywood staple down the years. Aside from My Fair Lady, other unofficial adaptations of Pygmalion include the Eddie Murphy comedy Trading Places, Pretty Woman and the 1999 teen outing She's All That, starring Freddie Prinze Jr and Rachael Leigh Cook.

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Colin Firth for Higgins?
.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!
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Bruce Forsyth for Doolittle ?

Not as daft as it sounds
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Dennis Waterman for Doolittle.
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Dennis Waterman for Doolittle.

He's done it on stage but surely the film role has Ray Winstone's name on it? I like Keira - I think she would be great, assuming her singing is up to scratch.
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He's done it on stage but surely the film role has Ray Winstone's name on it? I like Keira - I think she would be great, assuming her singing is up to scratch.
RW has too brooding a presence for my liking ..... I thought DW was great in the role onstage and gets he nod from me.
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RW has too brooding a presence for my liking ..... I thought DW was great in the role onstage and gets he nod from me.
Brucie should get it

RW will get it if a computer casts it

Judi Dench - Mrs Higgins
Jeremy Irons - Henry
Tom Wilkinson - Pickering
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Look, who's casting this film, you or me? It's going to have Colin Firth, Alex Jennings as Pickering, Simon Woods as Freddie and Eileen Atkins as Mrs H.
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Dennis Waterman for Doolittle.
But surely he won't be allowed to write the theme tune?
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This is THE pairing!

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This is THE pairing!
Not after his terrible accents in From Hell and Sweeney Todd!
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Not after his terrible accents in From Hell and Sweeney Todd!
But I fort it was all about horrid accents...................
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But not that horrid!
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But I fort it was all about horrid accents...................
That settles it - Dick Van Dyke as Doolittle
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The problem will be that nobody can sing as well as young Julie Andrews......
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