Ahh, Katherine Heigl and Janet Evanovich, a match made in hell. Today Variety reports that Heigl is attached to star in One for the Money for Columbia pictures, based on Evanovich’s novel.  Meanwhile, my hidden cameras report that she’s still going number two for a show.  Go, Kat, go!

Heigl will play Stephanie Plum, an unemployed lingerie buyer who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet.  Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith (The Ugly Truth, She’s the Man) penned the screenplay, and Liz Brixius (Nurse Jackie) has been brought onboard to do a polish.

Back when I used to commute to work, I used to get books on CD from the library, which didn’t have an amazing selection.  One of the ones I listened to was a Janet Evanovich novel, which had as a supporting character a sass-talkin’ fat, black lady who was always smuggling bacon or salami everywhere she went because she was on the Atkin’s diet.  True story.  So this one should be pretty good. In fact, Pete Hammond‘s already calling it “The most hilarious movie of next summer.”

I’ll take pretty much any excuse I can to post this video, but today I have a good one: the writer/director behind Død Snø (the movie this clip comes from, which opens in June) has a new project in the works.

Tommy Wirkola has an idea: “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.” Wirkola pitched Will Ferrell’s production company on the idea of exploring how things played out for the poor siblings 15 years after that whole gingerbread house incident. Simply put, they’re now specialized bounty hunters looking to put down the cackling black-hat set.

“The idea is, they’ve grown up and they hunt witches,” Adam McKay said. “It’s a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there’s pump-action shotguns. Modern technology but in an old style.  We heard it and we were just like, ‘That’s a freakin’ franchise! You could make three of those!’” [Yahoo]

Okay, settle down, spaz.  In the original, Hansel and Gretel burned the witch alive in an oven.  But if I know anything about bounty hunters, it’s that the worst thing they do to anyone is shoot them with mace or paintball guns.  Oh, and they hate black people. So basically, this is a modernized version of a germanic fairy tale in which the protagonists burn people in ovens and hate black people.  Talk about The Reader all over again.