A couple of months ago, it was announced that Katherine Heigl had discovered the secret to immortality, and it wasn’t keeping a creepy painting in her attic. Nope, it was drinking the blood of goats and sacrificing garden gnomes to the great god underneath her local IKEA. Wait, not that either.It was starring in the fantasy romance **The Age of Adaline. Well, now it’s just called Adaline and it has a director in Andy Tennant.
Written by J Mills Goodloe and Sal Pascowitz, with recent polishing by Feast of Love’s Allison Burnett, **Adaline **is the story of a beautiful woman who appears young, but has actually been around a fair bit longer than her fresh-faced looks might indicate. Following a mysterious accident, she’s been gifted, or, as some would see it, cursed with never aging.
But when she meets a man who may risk his life to help her regain her mortality, she decides that it’s time to rejoin the rest of humanity on the path to wrinkles, bad joints and, eventually, death. We’re sure they’ll focus on the more charming aspects of the story.
Tennant joining the film seems like a mixed blessing – he’s been responsible for some distinctly average rom-com fare recently, including last year’s Jennifer Aniston/Gerard Butler wannabe screwball pic The Bounty Hunter, along with Fool’s Gold and Sweet Home Alabama. Hitch was better, but nothing amazing. Perhaps a slight shift in genre will give him more to work with.
We’ll have to wait a while to see, though, as the film won’t start shooting until early next year.