Rupert Everett and Stephen Fry Attend Girls' School

In the U.K., St. Trinian's is a well-known fictional place.

The subject of a series of cartoons from British cartoonist Ronald Searle, which then became a series of films in the 1950s and '60s, it's a girls' school full of badly behaved students and strange teachers.

And it's getting a modern facelift with a new movie, St. Trinian's, which will star Colin Firth, Mischa Barton, Stephen Fry, and, playing dual roles and genders, Rupert Everett.

Everett will take on the part of both the school's headmistress and her brother, who must contend with the possibility of institutional bankruptcy.

The film should have instant appeal at home and will get a warm welcome from Anglophile Americans when it finally crosses the Atlantic.

Meanwhile, Romeo hopes Mischa Barton finds a good dialect coach.