A new stage version of Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is aiming for Broadway, with “Game of Thrones” actress Emilia Clarke expected to play Holly Golightly. The last attempt to bring “Breakfast” to Broadway, more than 40 years ago, became the stuff of theater legend — but not in a good way.

The ill-fated 1966 musical stage adaptation, starring a young Mary Tyler Moore, is one of the most famous flops in Broadway history. The production closed before it even officially opened, running for only four preview performances at New York’s Majestic Theatre.

Producer David Merrick famously explained that he didn’t want to subject anyone to an “excruciating, boring evening.” The musical, which also went by the name “Holly Golightly,” featured a book by Edward Albee, who was hot off of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The songs were by “Funny Girl” composer Bob Merrill.

The new stage adaptation, which is aiming for a February opening on Broadway, will be a play, not a musical. Prolific playwright Richard Greenberg has adapted the Capote novella for the stage.

“Breakfast” was published in 1958 and in 1961 was turned into a hit movie starring Audrey Hepburn. The story follows the somewhat amoral adventures of a young New York socialite.

Sean Mathias is expected to direct the new stage adaptation.

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Demian Bichir and Emilia Clarke have both had very good years, but for totally different reasons. Bichir was a surprise Oscar nominee earlier this year for Best Actor thanks to his role in the immigrant drama A Better Life, and has appeared since then in Oliver Stone’s Savages and nabbed a role in Paul Feig’s buddy cop comedy The Heat. And Clarke has become very, very famous as Daenerys Targaryen– a.k.a. the Khaleesi, Mother of Dragons– on Game of Thrones, the kind of role that will inevitably lead to bigger things and quickly.

Now one of those bigger things seem to have presented itself, as both Bichir and Clarke are taking roles in Dom Hemingway, a black comedy set to star Jude Law as the titular safecracker who’s back in action in London after 12 years in jail. According to Deadline Bichir will play the crime boss based in the south of France who Law’s character goes to visit. Clarke’s role isn’t specified, but given Law’s ability to play a ladykiller onscreen, I’m sure there’s no lack of a role for a pretty woman in a movie like this.

The film will be directed by Richard Shepard, whose previous features are The Hunting Party and The Matador, and who also directed episodes of 30 Rock and Game Of Thrones’s HBO sibling Girls. Though these additions to the supporting cast are strong, it’s going to be Law as a charismatic safecracker as the main draw of the film. he’s spent so much time as Sherlock Holmes’s sidekick, or popping up in small roles in the likes of Hugo and Contagion, that it ought to be a pleasure to see him as a leading man again.

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Steve Rogers will likely have a new love interest in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”. Deadline shares the words that Marvel Studios has shortlisted five Hollywood beauties to tackle the female lead role in the sequel to “Captain America: The First Avenger”.

Those who are reportedly in the running to be Chris Evans’ co-star in the film include “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke, “The Five Year Engagement” actress Alison Brie, and “Warm Bodies” beauty Teresa Palmer. The other two, meanwhile, are “Knight of Cups” star Imogen Poots and “Downton Abbey” actress Jessica Brown Findlay.

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