'Grey's Anatomy' star will team up with the writers and director of 'Legally Blonde'

Recent Emmy winner Katherine Heigl will star in "The Ugly Truth" from the folks behind "Legally Blonde."

The Lakeshore Entertainment production and future Columbia release will begin shooting in mid-April, with "Blonde" helmer Robert Luketic directing from a script rewritten by "Blonde" scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kristen Smith.

According to the industry trades, Heigl will play a news producer who hires a crackpot relationship expert as on-air talent for her show, only to discover that his theories really work.

Luketic most recently directed the hit comedy "Monster-in-Law."

Heigl starred in the summer comedy smash "Knocked Up." The "Grey's Anatomy" co-star has the Fox Atomic romantic comedy "27 Dresses" in the can. Her feature credits include "My Father the Hero" and the notoriously low-grossing "Zyzzyx Rd."