Another Period Piece for Keira Knightley
I guess the fear of being typecast is actually a reality
King Arthur, Pride and Prejudice, Silk, Atonement, The Duchess, The Edge of Love and then King Lear. Wow, that’s a lot of period pieces for one gal, but it is not enough for one Keira Knightley as she is now set to star in a remake of My Fair Lady for Columbia Pictures, a musical set in the year 1912. This should solidify Keira is a being 100% typecast.
Knightley will star as street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in the film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe musical, which when adapted back in 1964 with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn starring for director George Cukor the film won seven Oscars including best picture. However, while the remake will maintain the time period it plans a rather major makeover.
The 1964 version was shot entirely on Warner Bros. soundstages, but the update will use the same score but the goal is to shoot the film on location in the original London settings of Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Tottenham Court Road, Wimpole Street and the Ascot racecourse.
On top of adapting Alan Jay Lerner’s book the filmmakers also plan on adding additional material from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” which served as the source material for the musical. The goal is to dramatize the emotional highs and lows of Doolittle as she undergoes the ultimate metamorphosis under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins.
I have never seen the original, but I can only assume Knightley will doing a fair bit of singing and if you wonder how that will sound check out the below video of Knightley singing in The Edge of Love.
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