Movies
Emma Thompson to write 'My Fair Lady'
Published Thursday, Jul 17 2008, 16:43 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
The Columbia Pictures project, which Keira Knightley is circling, is a remake of the 1964 movie musical starring Audrey Hepburn as Cockney flower girl-turned socialite Eliza Doolittle. In turn, the film was adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.
Thompson told Parade that writing the film will take a long time because she does not use a word processor.
"I'm a Luddite, and I write longhand with an old fountain pen," she said.
Thompson is the only person to have won Oscars for both acting (1992's Howard's End) and screenwriting (1995's Sense And Sensibility).
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