Katherine Heigl News

Katherine Heigl will star in and produce a feature film adaptation of Escape. The bestselling memoir by Carolyn Jessop focuses on the testimony that helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

A bit more background: Jessop was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect. At 18 she married a man 32 years her senior; at 35, she fled with her eight children. Heigl will take the lead role.

Katherine Heigl is working on a solid movie resume.

Gerard Butler is bring his rock hard abs to a romantic comedy alongside Katherine Heigl.

The pair will star in The Ugly Truth, a film in which Butler will play the TV host of a chauvinistic segment called ''The Ugly Truth'' and Heigl will portray a romantically-challenged morning show producer who is reluctantly embroiled by Butler's character in a series of outrageous tests to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love.

The project brings together the team behind Legally Blonde: director Robert Luketic and writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Shooting is scheduled to start in April.

Butler's recent credits include P.S. I Love You and 300. He next stars in Nim's Island, while Heigl just completed 27 Dresses.