Warners Knows Their Etiquette

They're planning a film about manners

Warners Knows Their Etiquette

by Helen O'Hara |
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We've had films based on toys, theme park rides and dating manuals, and now here comes a film based on a book of etiquette. Yes, Warners are making a film based on the works of Emily Post, the American manners expert whose books are a byword for proper behaviour.

Post wrote numerous books including the massively popular Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (more commonly known simply as "Etiquette"), took to radio and television and founded a dynasty of good manners that has endured to this day (her great-great-granddaughter is currently writing on the subject). This film would not be a biopic or anything like it, however, but a My Fair Lady-esque tale of learning good manners with the gender roles reversed, wherein a "prissy" Emily Post manners coach (yes, such things exist) turns a rough-mannered guy into a true gentleman. We smell a rom-com! Bet she gives him class and he teaches her to loosen up and have more fun in life. Like, er, every rom-com ever.

Nick Osbourne, the producer of upcoming Robert Pattinson film Remember Me and last year's disappointing All About Steve, wrote the treatment, and then re-wrote it with input from the Emily Post Institute, still run by her family. Still, there's no script or director yet so don't hold your breath for this one. In fact, don't hold it at all - terribly unmannerly.

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