The Ugly Truth For Gerard Butler A rom-com alongside Katherine Heigl Source: Variety
Gerard Butler and the word ‘ugly’ appearing in the same sentence? Couldn’t possibly happen, right, ladies? Well, you’ll be seeing it occur much more often in future after Oor Gerry signed on to star in the new comedy, The Ugly Truth.
The Scottish actor and, if Helen has her way, the future Mr. Butler-O'Hara, will star alongside America’s current screen queen, Katherine Heigl, in the film, which is being described as a classic battle of the sexes comedy.
Butler will play Mike Alexander, host of a TV segment entitled The Ugly Truth. A chauvinist at heart, Alexander forces his singleton producer (Heigl) to undergo a series of outlandish experiments which he hopes will prove his theories on relationships, and help her find love.
We caught up briefly with Butler over the weekend, and he was jazzed enough about the project to tell us this. “I’m excited about that. Recently I’ve done a bit of comedy, but this is a full-on romantic comedy.”
OK, so he wasn’t exactly flooding us with detail, but it’ll still be nice to see Butler attempt another change of pace – he’s just finished filming on Game, the action-packed thriller from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, directors of Crank, and so will understandably be looking to calm things down.
He’s in good hands, too. Everything Heigl touches turns to gold right now (not literally – don’t run up to her with an ashtray or something, expecting to coin it in), while the film will be directed by Robert Luketic, who’s got form in this area with Legally Blonde.
The Lakeshore Entertainment film is set to shoot in April, with Sony distributing worldwide.
Gerard Butler likes to mix it up with different types of films and I am glad he does. He can't do action foreverand he has said as much. The body will rebel and it has to rest sometime, why not a rom-com now and then. I want to see him make many styles of films. I do not want to be bored with the same-o, same-o. He will be around a long while doing what he enjoys. I like that he is fresh of mind when it comes to movies. He is so well read and brings so much to each movie wit... Read More
Okay so when you see a hot guy in 300, all tonned and very fit on screen, you wouldn't think he would do romantic rom-coms would you? Well, now he has. I do wonder though where will his career would take off like it did when 300 came out? It might be good, no knows? I will go and see it, for sure, when it comes out but I still think he's better off doing action films rather than rom-coms. I argee but have a little disagreement. ... Read More
You tend to forget, Gerard Butler does the final choosing of his own scripts. They are presented to him for HIS approval. He has stated that he likes to do a mix of films and having just come off of an action movie, he is ready to play a little comedy. He is good at that, by the way. So lay off and find some pasty BriItish actor to go after. He is enjoying his career and doing it his way, thank goodness. So back to the real world people. ... Read More
You know, people seem to be forgetting that on the whole, Gerard Butler does seem to gravitate towards kind of...wussy roles, for want of a better word; the boyfriend in PS I Love You, the new daddy in Dear Frankie, the equivalent of the Bond Girl in Tomb Raider 2, and the second campest Dracula ever (after Richard Roxburgh) in Dracula 2000. Leonidas was the exception, not the rule, guys; man-whore/Catherine Cookson roles are what Butler is all about. ... Read More
