Katherine Heigl has found a new film project. Variety says she’s been hired for a rom-com called The Ugly Truth.

The film casts Heigl as a morning show producer who can’t find a man. She becomes reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests thought up by one of her chauvinistic news correspondents with the intent of proving his relationship theories while helping her find true love. It’s written and directed by the team who brought you Legally Blonde, and it sounds like pretty standard, formulaic, rom-com stuff.

This is kind of a let down really. Heigl was so good in Knocked Up this summer, that I’d kind of hoped her next big project would be something of similarly smart substance. Instead, she’s stuck traveling down the path that every Hollywood actress seems to wander down: lame, shallow rom-coms which portray women as man-hungry, romance whores. Feminism is so dead.

Seeing her do something like this is especially disappointing when you consider the career path her Knocked Up co-star Seth Rogen is on. He’s writing his own movies, looking for quality projects, and taking risks on potentially dangerous (but incredibly interesting) movies like Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Meanwhile Heigl is doing a dumb rom-com for the Legally Blonde people. I’d really hoped she’d be better than this. Depressing.