Keira Knightley is set to play Eliza Doolittle in a film remake of the musical My Fair Lady and Daniel Day-Lewis, is being sought to star along with her.

Knightley the star of Atonement, Pride and Prejudice and the Pirates of the Caribbean films, has already signed up to the project and has begun singing lessons.

Meanwhile the producers of the film have reportedly put Day-Lewis, the double Oscar-winning star of There Will Be Blood and My Left Foot, at the top of their wish list of actors to play opposite her as Henry Higgins.
They are convinced that the star would be perfect as the pig-headed chauvinist who falls for the flower seller he plucks from the gutter.

Until recently, the idea of Day-Lewis in a musical would have been unthinkable. But the actor is also in talks to star alongside Nicole Kidman in a film version of the musical Nine.

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