Earlier this year, in
Knocked Up,
Katherine Heigl played a television personality for
E! But her character started out in a behind-the-camera role, despite the fact that she's a knock-out beauty. Now,
according to Variety, the actress has been cast in a similar part. She'll play an off-screen producer of a morning show, who also happens to be "romantically challenged," in the romantic comedy
The Ugly Truth, in which she must deal with a "chauvinistic" correspondent attempting to teach her how to find love. Here's where the plot description makes little sense: "His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result." Unexpected? I think we all can easily predict and expect the result as being that Heigl's character falls for the correspondent. Anyone who has ever seen a screwball romantic comedy can see that one coming a mile away. When is Hollywood going to just own up to the fact that they use genre conventions and that we in the audience enjoy genre conventions (and have enjoyed them for a century now) and leave out the "unexpected" crap? Who do they think they're kidding?
The sad thing is that this not only sounds like another genre picture; it actually sounds more like the plot of
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy. But fans of that movie may not be interested in
The Ugly Truth, which is being made by the collaborative team behind
Legally Blonde. The script was written by
Karen McCullah Lutz and
Kristen Smith, who last gave us
She's the Man (which I'm still not ashamed to admit I enjoyed), and it will be directed by
Robert Luketic, whose last movie was
Monster-in-Law (which I'm still not ashamed to admit I would never ever watch). Filming is set to begin mid-April. All we need now is a hot, irresistible, but believably chauvinistic actor to play the obvious love interest.
Here's a whole bunch of comedy-laden manly news for you, courtesy of Variety:
Is it really Monday already? Here are some casting bites that have popped up over at Variety:
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