Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley is rumoured to be being lined up to play Eliza Doolittle in Stephen Daldry's remake of My Fair Lady.

In an interview with the Daily Mail Daldry claimed that film audiences had been 'fooled' that the 1964 version was a great movie saying: 'It's all about Cecil Beaton's sets and costumes, isn't it? Which are fantastic  -  as are the songs, of course.

"It's a visual masterpiece  -  but it needs to be more than that. It's a clunky movie."

Daldry is currently riding on a wave of award success as his current picture The Reader has five Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture and Best Director.

Academy Award winner Emma Thompson is also aboard the project as script writer. she did win an Oscar for her adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.

Filming is expected to get underway next year.


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