Feb
5
Katherine Heigl In Talks To Do Puppet Murder Story
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It isn’t a typical Katherine Heigl story but apparently she is in negotiations to sign onto a new film project called The Happytime Murders. It is coming to us from the guy that did A Muppets Christmas Carol and Kung Fu Panda 2. The plot and style is a far cry from what we have come to expect from Ms Heigl, so maybe she is branching out in 2012. Read on for more info about the film…
The project is going to be directed by Brian Henson who did A Muppets Christmas Carol and written by Todd Berger from Kung Fu Panda 2. The story is set in a fictionalized universe where puppets and humans co-exist, but the puppets are seen as “second-class citizens”. A disgraced detective puppet is called on When the cast of a popular 80′s kids show gets murdered by a serial killer one at a time.
The role that Katherine is reported to be in talks about is the private eye. This is obviously a very different role to the typical things she has done in the past, mostly in the realm of relationship comedies. Think Knocked Up… It is great to see her branching (Read more...)