Carrie Underwood has signed on to star in the upcoming Sound of Music movie remake for NBC.

Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment is ecstatic about the three-hour movie which will air in late 2013. “Speaking for everyone at NBC, we couldn’t be happier to have the gifted Carrie Underwood take up the mantle of the great Maria von Trapp”.

Underwood will play the role made famous by Julie Andrews in the 1965 Best Picture winner.