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Katherine Heigl to "Escape" the Polygamists
Published 6/11/2008 at FilmWad
"Knocked Up" co-star Katherine Heigl is reportedly preparing to produce and star in "Escape," a film based on the memoirs of Carolyn Jessop, the woman whose testimony helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs last year. According to Variety, "Jessop was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect. At 18 she married a man 32 years her senior; at 35, she fled with her eight children." I don't know if anyone's going to buy that Katherine Heigl has had eight children, but it sounds like a hell of a story to tell. No screenwriters or directors have been attached yet, but ...

It's the End of the World As Seth Rogen Knows It
Published 6/11/2008 at Vulture
... Heigl Plans Escape: Katherine Heigl will produce and star in the feature adaptation of Carolyn Jessop's memoir, Escape. We're all about movies where heroines bring down polygamist sects, and the story of Warren Jeffs's downfall is no exception. Suck it, questionable tenets of other people's religions! [Variety] ...

Heigl boards polygamist drama ‘Escape’
Published 6/11/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
Katherine Heigl has signed on to star in the big-screen adaptation of Carolyn Jessop’s memoir “Escape,” according to Variety. ...

Katherine Heigl to Take On Carolyn Jessop's Polygamy Story
Published 6/11/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
Carolyn Jessop's memoir Escape will be adapted for the big screen, with Katherine Heigl attached to star and produce, Variety reports. Jessop, whose testimony helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, "was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect. At 18 she married a man 32 years her senior; at 35, she fled with her eight children." Another memoir focusing on this same Warren Jeffs case was also recently acquired by a movie studio, Elissa Wall's Stolen Innocence. Apparently this particular case is becoming a favorite headline for filmmakers to rip. Do you ...

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Published 6/11/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! Someone on Flickr snapped a photo of Hugh Jackman filming a World War II style scene for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Cinematical has the poster for Jeffrey Nachmanoff’s Traitor, which stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce. Millennium Films is developing a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. The story will focus on the group’s origins. Boring. [variety] The LA Times has an article about the music of Scott Pilgrim, in which they talk to the comic creator ...

Katherine Heigl Escapes Polygamy
Published 6/11/2008 at Cinema Blend News
... the news a whole lot lately, after a raid on the group’s Texas compound resulted in women and children being taken away, only to be returned case. Now there’s a movie in the works about a similar case from a different location of the church, and the person to tackle this serious, heartbreaking issue is… Katherine Heigl? She plans to produce and star in an adaptation of Escape , the memoir by Carolyn Jessop about her life with and eventual escape from the FLDS compound in Utah. The Variety article says Jessop’s book chronicles her marriage to a 50-year-old man at the age of ...

Katherine Heigl Chases Oscar Gold While Stepping On Those That Made Her Ascent Possible [One Smart Blonde]
Published 6/11/2008 by Molly Friedman at Defamer
... at every conceivable turn, she's racked up more than her fair share of detractors. But being the determined ball buster that she is, she's not going to let a little thing like criticism get in her way of becoming her generation's Julia Roberts. Today, Variety reports that she is set to star in and co-produce Escape, based on the true story of Carolyn Jessop, whose memoir of escaping her polygamist husband became ...

"Grey's Anatomy" Star In New Tiff
Published 6/12/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
Man, it's gotta be tough backstage at "Grey's Anatomy." There must be slap fights every day at the catering truck, tears and sniffles in the honeywagon. A year ago we had the whole Isaiah Washington-Patrick Dempsey-T.R. Knight brouhaha, that went on for months, even after creator Shonda Rhimes gave Washington the boot. Katherine Heigl did her best to get a piece of that action, standing up for pal Knight, but now she's taken a very public shot at Rhimes on an entirely different topic. Heigl copped the best-actress Emmy last year in a surprise win for her performance as Dr. Izzie Stevens, beating out two of her ...