Keira Knightley in talks for ”My Fair Lady”
Columbia Pictures is in talks with Keira Knightley to star as the simple Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a lady - ”My Fair Lady” according to Variety.
Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh will produce the film, which will retain Alan Jay Lerner’s stage lyrics and the 1912 setting. The movie will shoot at several UK locations including Covent Garden, Wimpole Street and the Ascot racecourse.
“My Fair Lady,” with book and lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, was first staged in 1956 featuring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison.
Broadway musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, was first adapted for the screen in 1964. The film, which starred Audrey Hepburn won eight Oscars.
Kenworthy said: “With 40 years of hindsight, we’re confident that by setting these wonderful characters and brilliant songs in a more realistic context, and by exploring Eliza’s emotional journey more fully, we will honour both Shaw and Lerner at the same time as engaging and entertaining contemporary audiences the world over.”
Mackintosh, who has produced many of the West End’s and Broadway’s most successful musicals, including “Cats,” “Les Miserables” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” said the story of Doolittle’s transformation “couldn’t be more timely in a contemporary world obsessed with overnight celebrity.”
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”The Edge of Love” - Clip and more movie stills added
You can see the clip of Keira Knightley singing in The Edge of Love which also stars Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys.
more about upcoming drama “The Edge of Love”
watch the clip after the jump
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‘The Edge of Love’ - Poster Added
Earlier, we wrote about ‘The Edge of Love‘ HERE where you can also find the trailer and photos from the movie.
Take a look at this first The Edge of Love poster below.
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Keira Knightley is set for a busy year
Did you like ‘The Other Boleyn Girl‘? Well, look forward to more!
The BBC’s film unit is to make a sequel to ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’, based on ‘The Boleyn Inheritance‘, another book by Philippa Gregory. The story is told through the eyes of two of Henry VIII’s wives, Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard.
Keira Knightley is to star in a new film adaptation of Shakespearean tragedy ‘King Lear.’
She will play Cordelia, the youngest daughter of the King, who will be portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. Gwyneth Paltrow is tipped to take the role of Regan, Lear’s treacherous middle daughter. His eldest daughter, Goneril, is yet to be cast.
The $35 million film was announced at the Cannes Film Festival and will feature epic battle sequences, according to its makers.
Next month sees the release of ‘The Edge of Love‘, with Sienna Miller, in which she plays a lover of the poet Dylan Thomas.
She also stars in ‘The Duchess‘, a lavish costume drama based on the life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
Several other projects were announced at the Cannes film festival yesterday, including an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray‘ starring Ben Barnes, currently thrilling cinema audiences as ‘Prince Caspian in the Narnia sequel.’
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‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4′ in 2011
UPDATE September 25, 2008
Walt Disney have been planning to release the fourth installment of its most successful trilogy ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4‘ in 2011.Though many reports are conflicting on how the studio get on the fourth film, many favors that the fourth film will focus solely on the renowned Captain Jack Sparrow.
Further, it was said that as the studio is trying to downsize the film’s budget, the fourth installment would probably have a lighter take on the special effects.
Although there has been no definitive word yet on if or when Walt Disney Pictures and producer Jerry Bruckheimer might set sail on a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, indeed, both the cast and the filmmakers said while promoting last summer’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End that the franchise would be taking a well-deserved break, rumors have now surfaced about the plot to Pirates 4. So, The production might not begin until sometime between 2009-2011.
Johnny Depp is all but set to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow. Also reportedly expected to return are co-star Geoffrey Rush.
It could be disappointment for fans that Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are not expected to be back, but it’s not official yet.
”Pirates 4 “would toss the Elizabeth & Will characters [portrayed by Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, respectively] over the side in favor of doing a bawdy buddy picture which would star Jack Sparrow & Barbossa. Where both captains of the Black Pearl would initially be competing for the exact same prize.But eventually all the double crossing would have to stop as these two rivals were then forced to join forces in order to defeat some supernatural terror.”
The first three ‘Pirates’ films which features Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley have been extremely successful as it gained millions of dollars each.
The first film ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’ has grossed $305.4 million domestically and $654.3 million worldwide.
Further, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ got better reception by earning $423.3 in North America only and over one billion dollars around the world, while the third ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End’ reached $961 million in its worldwide sales.
UPDATE September 25, 2008
Walt Disney Studios held a massive event at the Kodak Theatre in LA, during which the Studios’ chairman, Dick Cook, previewed all of Disney’s upcoming films for the next few years.
And Johnny Depp was at the heart of it all.
The actor showed up on stage for a triple announcement which apparently ties him to Disney for some time. That announcement was…excitable! You can read it HERE
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Keira’s ‘Atonement’ dress voted best film costume of all time
Keira Knightley’s green dress in her new film ‘Atonement’ has been voted the best film costume of all time in a poll conducted by Sky Movies and In Style magazine. The green silk gown beat classic favorites like Marilyn Munroe’s white dress from “The Seven Year Itch” and Audrey Hepburn’s ever-inspirational little black dress in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s.’
Runners-up included the cult-inspiring skin-tight black leather pants worn by Olivia Newton-John in “Grease”, the blue gown worn by Kate Winslet in “Titanic” and Diane Keaton’s tie-and-waistcoat ensemble in’”Annie Hall.’
Nicole Kidman’s corset from Moulin Rouge, Liza Minnelli’s fishnet stocking and bowler hat costume from Cabaret, Cate Blanchett’s gown from “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” and Vivien Leigh’s memorable dresses from “Gone With the Wind” rounded up the top ten.
Source: China Daily
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