John Madden Set to Direct My Fair Lady Remake
John Madden, no not the animated and legendary football commentator, rather the Academy Award winning British director behind Shakespeare In Love is set to direct the remake of the classic Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady, a 1964 Academy Award nominated film.
Madden is currently completing production on the Helen Mirren film The Debt for Miramax and Marv Films, will ramp up the search for his leading lady and man in the new year. It was recently reported that Keira Knightley was still attached to the project after circling the project for some time, however there is no formal agreement for her to play Eliza.
Joe Wright was also attached to direct previous to Madden’s now involvement. The pic is being produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh, who have been attached to the project since its start. Variety who broke the news says that this remake will draw more closely on Alan Jay Lerner’s book and the original play it is based on — George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” — than on 1964′s George Cukor-helmed Warner Bros. film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
Kenworthy and Mackintosh also intend to shoot the film, which will retain the original score and 1912 setting, in the original London locations, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Tottenham Court Road, Wimpole Street plus Ascot racecourse.
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