Lady Be Loverly

Speaking with the BBC, Emma Thompson confirmed that Carey Mulligan is set to play Eliza Doolittle in a remake of the 1964 film version of the Broadway musical My Fair Lady--being written by Thomson herself.

"I think Carey is set to play it, yes. But we still don’t know about [Henry] Higgins. I love Hugh [Grant] so I’d love him to do it, he might want to, he might not want to, so we don’t know yet. But hopefully we’ll make it later this year."

John Madden will direct the pic that at one time had Keira Knightley play Eliza, but this actress dropped out because the project was “taking too long to come together.”

Thompson and Mulligan’s co-starred together in An Education,