Katherine Heigl Bows Out of ADALINE Film Starring Lansbury

According to Deadline.com, Katherine Heigl has withdrawn from the film, Adaline, co-starring Angela Lansbury. The movie's screenplay is by J Mills Goodloe, Sal Paskowitz and Allison Burnett, and it will be directed by Abny Tennant.

In the film, Lansbury was to star as Katherine Heigl's daughter. Heigl's character "was killed in a car accident, until a simultaneous lightning strike resuscitated her and physiologically locked her in her late 20s. Adaline lives a solitary existence until she meets a man worth losing her immortality to grow old with."

While rumors were circulating that Heigl was fired, however, reps for Heigl and Lakeshore Films, which is producing the film, insist there is no bad blood. Says Lakeshore partner Gary Lucchesi, "She has made two movies with us and we certainly support her decision...We were scheduled to shoot mid-March and we hope to achieve that. We are great fans of hers and if this is what she has to do, we respect that."  Heigl reportedly was simply not ready to return to work since adopting daughter Naleigh.

Execs are working to recast Heigl immediately.

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