Emma Thompson To Write Screenplay for "My Fair Lady" Remake
Yay this is awesome! I really love Emma Thompson - I first saw her in Love Actually, which is probably my most favoritest movie ever in the history of the world ever forever ever ever. I've also seen her in Stranger Than Fiction (another good movie with Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal) and, of course, Harry Potter. However, I have never seen anything she's written (I know, hard to believe that I didn't jump at the chance to see Nanny McPhee... =S).
Columbia Pictures announced June 5 that it will join forces with CBS Films to create a new film version of the classic musical My Fair Lady that will be produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh.
The film will utilize the legendary Lerner and Loewe score but will adapt Lerner's original book by drawing additional material from Pygmalion, upon which the musical is based. Producers hope to "dramatize as believably as possible for present-day audiences the emotional highs and lows of Eliza Doolittle as she undergoes the ultimate makeover, transforming under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins from a Cockney flower girl to a lady," according to press notes.
Well I can't wait until this comes out! 'Tis going to be interesting... :D
Towards the end of the show, Henry Higgins' mother has a great line: "Bravo, Eliza!". Who better to play the part of Henry's mother than...Julie Andrews?!! "Awooouldn't it be Loverly?"