Emma Thompson to write 'My Fair Lady'

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Emma Thompson will pen the remake of My Fair Lady.

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).