![]() And of course part of me is angered that she snatched what should have been Keira's role. I do like Carey, I'm just not as crazed for her as others are. With The Talking Cure on the horizon, I don't think she's too worried, though. The one shining light in this adaptation is Thompson, and I wish Keira could have worked with her. Or she'll miss out on a chance for more Oscar glory. And she'd have helped with the box office (I don't think Carey will be as successful in that arena.) Oh well, maybe she'll have dodged a bullet (it's had quite a few director changes as well, which isn't a good thing). No secret I'm a Keira fan, so it does peeve me that the producers strung her along for long and never gave her the part - what exactly were they questioning? She was supposedly taking singing lessons and we know she can do Cockney well (Pure). Of course there will be those who don't want this to be remade at all, but they had an acute nastiness toward Keira. If anyone were to suffer for taking this role, it would be Keira. Andrews got the last laugh becoming a huge film star that same year, winning the Oscar for Mary Poppins and chasing it with The Sound of Music, one of the biggest box office behemoths of all time. It's widely believed she was snubbed as misplaced karmic punishment for winning the role when the producers deemed Julie Andrews (who originated it on Broadway) unfit to sell a movie, having no previous film experience. The original My Fair Lady was a huge Oscar sensation but for Audrey herself who wasn't even nominated, despite it being one of her three signature roles (the others obviously being "Holly Golightly" and "Princess Ann"). If the movie does happen (we're still early in the process mind you), I will die with curiousity waiting for Oscar to react. Hollywood loves to see actors repeating themselves and Hathaway has had a lot of training at Pygmalian-esque screen make-overs ( The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada). (And I don't think they'll let her do her own singing as Judy Garland in that biopic, you know?) And you'd think Hathaway would be a total fit for Eliza. She's the only one who has made it completely obvious that she was born for it. What is going on here? If any single actress from Young Hollywood should be doing musicals, it's her. I have no idea if Carey Mulligan can sing or not but this is yet another situation where we have a movie musical happening and Anne Hathaway is not starring in it. Therefore ALL movies will make billions if we convert them to 3D!") so I feared Nine's financial blood bath would spell the end of the musical resurgence despite all the musical hits that directly preceded it. See, Hollywood has a way of assuming that one thing equals every other thing (" Avatar made billions. In truth I'm just happy that any musical is still getting made after Nine's bombing. That's a sure sign that the book inbetween the classic score will be witty. I don't exactly object to My Fair Lady being remade (though I assumed it would be a non-musical version when I first heard the news) and I'm thrilled that Emma Thompson is involved. And who wants to risk comparison to one of the greatest movie stars of all time? ![]() It's quite another to be labelled so and then sign up to take on one of their signature roles. ![]() But it's one thing to be labelled "the next so and so". After all every young actress must suffer the "new so and so" thing as they come into their stardom. Mulligan's already got the 'new Audrey Hepburn' tag as she worked the fashions with stick thin elegance all awards season. It was less than a month ago that Mulligan said there was zero truth to the rumor. The Carey Mulligan news is also a handy illustration of why I never trust either rumors or denials. Now, this is why I don't spend hundreds of posts tracking every pre-production film the way most sites do - well, that and the time and the lack of staff and the preference for actual movies rather than movies no one will see for another year or three - because things are always in flux. Carey Mulligan will be playing Eliza Doolittle instead of Keira Knightley as previously reported. ![]() So it looks like the remake of 1964's Best Picture My Fair Lady is going to happen after all. Audrey Hepburn and the latest "new Audrey Hepburn" Carey Mulligan ![]()
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