Poor Katherine Heigl. After breaking out of the TV rut she was stuck in with Roswell and Grey's Anatomy, now she's stuck in a rom-com rut in movies. Oh sure, she was in the superior Knocked Up this summer, but her next film is 27 Dresses (about an eternal bridesmaid), and she's just signed on to follow that with The Ugly Truth.
The story follows a "romantically challenged" morning show producer (see? Even in rom-coms TV is haunting her) who finds herself reluctantly involved in a series of outrageous tests by a chauvanistic correspondant on her show, who's attempting to prove his theories on relationships but also to help her find love. An "unexpected result", it seems, follows.
Now (SPECULATION ALERT!) we're guess that said "unexpected result" means that she ends up with someone she already knows, possibly the correspondant himself who, it turns out, wasn't that chauvanistic after all; he just needed to find the right woman.
And "romantically challenged" is the worst ephemism for singlehood ever. But on the bright side, the film's being directed by Robert Luketic, director of the great Legally Blonde (and the much less great Monster-In-Law, but nobody's perfect), as well as the writing team from that Witherspoon opus, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. So hopefully it won't be complete rubbish. Filming shoots in April, so expect to see this maybe late next year.
But in the meantime, what other genres should Heigl try? She's done lots of horror, and now lots of rom-coms - anything else that could help her to the A-list?