'My Fair Lady' Remake Filming Delayed Until 2011?

Baz Bamigboye speculates in the U.K. Daily Mail that filming for the upcoming My Fair Lady film remake by Emma Thompson, allegedly starring Carey Mulligan, may be delayed until 2011.

Writes Bamigboye: "Director John Madden is still casting the film's top-tier roles, with the help of producers Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh and I'm pleased that Madden is still on board and hasn't quit (as I wrote recently)...However, filming won't now take place till next year, I am reliably told."

Though no one has been cast as male lead Henry Higgins, rumors have sugguested that Hugh Grant might be linked to the role.  On this subject Thompson stated, "But we still don't know about  Higgins. I love Hugh 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."

The original film was a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based on the film adaptation of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ending and the ballroom scene are from the 1938 film Pygmalion rather than Shaw's original stage play. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.  My Fair Lady won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.