Can Katherine Heigl Save Her Career By Returning to Television?
Poor Katherine Heigl. America has still not forgiven her for verbally abusing Grey's Anatomy -- the series that brought her fame, fortune and countless one-dimensional rom-com roles -- on national television. As such, her post-Grey's films tanked at the box office, her former co-stars mocked her to the press, and she became the butt of jokes made by other romcom characters. In the latest crushing blow to Heigl, Lionsgate yanked her newest film from the lucrative summer to the barren winter. How's a girl supposed to fix a self-admitted image problem?
By returning to television! Well, that's what Heigl is going to try, anyway. The actress is teaming up with HBO to produce and star in an adaptation of Ann Hood's best-selling novel The Knitting Circle. Dirty Sexy Money creator Craig Wright will pen the script, about a mother who struggles to overcome the grief of losing her young daughter and the trauma of a struggling marriage through a knitting circle. (So, like How to Make an American Quilt meets Rabbit Hole?) In addition to marking Heigl's first premium cable project, The Knitting Circle will allow the Emmy winner to revisit more dramatic material akin to her Izzie Stevens days on Grey's Anatomy.
Could this be the career saver that Heigl is hoping for? As long as it doesn't involve the actress knitting a pair of vibrating panties or playing house with Ashton Kutcher, perhaps. If it succeeds however, let's just hope The Knitting Circle doesn't lead to The Ugly Truth 2: The Uglier Truth.
· Katherine Heigl To Produce And Star In Movie Project For HBO [Deadline]
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"The Ugly Truth" made $89 million domestic and $116 million foreign for a total of $205 million. So a sequel is actually a pretty good idea.
Katherine's career doesn't need "saving." That is a media created perception. As for this HBO project, I think she loves the book and realizes a movie called "The Knitting Circle" isn't likely to draw crowds away from the likes of "The Dark Knight Rises" at the box office.
America has still not forgiven her?
What the same America that thinks Charlie Sheen is a fucking Warlock?
wtvr........
So you hate Katherine Heigl..........
Hey I kinda don't like you but I ain't gonna make a big deal out of it so why don't you try and do the same and stfu and do your job....bitch....
Non of her post Grey's movies tanked apart from Killers. Get your facts right please. "Life As We Know It" was one of 2010's most successful rom-coms in a year where most of her peers tanked way worse. They just dont get the ridiculous hate press Heigl attracts.
Is there anything factually correct in this article? You can't even spell the name of Grey's character correctly.
Yes she can, and yes she did.
Yup, Katherine's worried about her career. KILLERS bombed at the box-office big time. LIFE AS WE KNOW IT underperformed. Both movies (and even her previous movies) had critics blasting Katherine Heigl for doing such overdone, predictable crap where she plays the same character. She hasn't had the post-Grey's Anatomy career she thought she would. The big name directors aren't calling her up wanting to work with her. She's not being offered the good roles the acclaimed actresses (the ones who have shown versatility and are taken seriously unlike Heigl) are. For someone who left TV because she thought she was too big of a star for the show that made her a household name in the first place (if you actually believe she left Grey's Anatomy because she wanted to spend more time with her family, you are really naïve) to go back to TV is amusing. Every day she must regret all the trash talking she's done because all she's managed to do was ruin her once promising career.
Katy, stop googling yourself. Sit back, light up a Camel Light with a $100 bill & relax. Soon enough no one will be saying anything mean about you. They won't be saying anything at all...
Just because a movie made money doesn't mean that a sequel to it is a good idea.
A "reboot", however...
I genuinely feel sorry for Katherine Heigl. As someone who loved her back in the "Roswell" days, I've always thought she was a talented actress.
But she is genuinely her own worst enemy. She trashed "Grey's Anatomy" without a valid reason (she complained about not having Emmy-worthy material the year she begged for a lighter shooting schedule to fit her movie career, and she complained about having to occasionally work 15-hour days while only being paid thousands and thousands of dollars to do so). She insists on starring in movies where women are not only useless without a good man, but the definition of a good man must entail misogyny and brutality.
Yes, the post is misleading. Katherine has not yet reached the point where her career needs to be saved. But she has long past the point where most people wish her nothing but the worst. She's an ungrateful, mean-spirited diva who feeds on the image of women as spineless and stupid, and the sooner her career goes beyond saving, the better.
But let me tell you what I really think.
You do realize that you not liking the writer doesn't really mean much, but HEAPS of people not liking Katherine Heigl is a little detrimental to her career, right? And pointing this out IS his job. What's your issue? Did you push Ms Heigl out your cervix? Then you stfu, asskisser.
OOPSIE! Didn't look up to see who wrote the article, so I mean HER JOB. Saw the little pic of Madea down below and it threw me!
I think the forum has spoken! I too thought that her films did ok, but that aside, the rom coms are perfectly suited to dvd rainy day chick flicks. Guys like looking at her (is that sexist?) and women enjoy the emotional spin she brings to film. I think that she has found a pleasant acting persona that will last her for quite a while. The world needs actors for more than dramas. You go girl!
What are you, her publicist?
Before Knocked Up, I'd never heard of this lady. The secret is to not star in really bad movies.
katie is a friend of mine. this write knows nothing of which she speaks. katie was right about G.A. she has taken a step back to be with her child, nothing more.
I just recently read something that Liam Neeson's cameo got cut from The Hangover 2? Does this mean that his career is in jeopardy, too?
Their are a lot of sucess storys from actors doing Greys,Katy needs to apologize for her stupid remarks,and go on with her life,maybe return to greys,after all she was a nobody before Greys,negative remarks of any kind burn bridges and that hurts the future of any actor,just look at other actors past and learn from it.
WE never watched Grey's Anatomy but my wife and I like all of her movies - she's cute and sexy !!!!
I've seen it time and time again. Actors and actresses who feel they are better suited for Movies and leave the shows that made them famous. There is Farah Fawcett and Kate Jackson and Suzanne Sommers and David Caruso. Tons more I can't think of now.
I guess that is what fame is.