Katherine Heigl to Star in Puppet-Murder Thriller

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Has Katherine Heigl tired of making battle-of-the-sexes romantic comedies? Yesterday it was announced that Heigl would star in a thriller about face-blindness, and today she’s picked a project even further afield from her usual genre: She’s the first actor to sign onto The Happytime Murders, based on a long-acclaimed Todd Berger script set in a world where people and puppets coexist. Jim Henson’s son Brian will direct the movie, described as an R-rated dark comedy and plotted like so, according to Deadline: “When the puppet cast of an 80s kids TV show gets murdered one by one, a disgraced detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.†Sounds kind of like that puppet episode of Angel! No word yet on whether Heigl would be playing (wo)man or Muppet.

Katherine Heigl to Star in Puppet-Murder Thriller