Adam Sandler Catches McPheever
Just a month after signing on to make her movie debut in an independent feature, Katharine McPhee has been called up to the bigs.
The former American Idol songbird has signed on to make her studio debut in an untitled sorority comedy from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company and Columbia Pictures.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, McPhee will play a pregnant hippie coed who also happens to be a member of the lamest sorority on campus.
McPhee, whose casting was first reported by Entertainment Weekly, joins several up-and-comers in the flick, including Anna Faris; second-generation thesp Rumer Willis; Superbad's Emma Stone; Kat Dennings, who previously played daughter to 40-Year-Old Virgin's Catherine Keener; and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo's Dana Goodman.
The film centers on Faris' fall from grace as a Playboy Bunny who gets evicted from her grottoside digs at the Mansion and is forced to take a job as housemother for the geekiest of the local college Greeks.
In addition to McPhee's turn as a peace-loving preggers sister, Stone plays the sorority president, Willis is an insecure student who chooses to don a backbrace, Dennings is a well-pierced women's studies major and Goodman plays the flighty sister whose inability to commit to a major has kept her from graduating.
The script was penned by Legally Blonde's chick flick-friendly writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. The film will be directed by Fred Wolf, a former Saturday Night Live writer who did the screenplay for Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Cameras are slated to roll on July 23.
McPhee, who placed second to Taylor Hicks on American Idol's fifth season, has been working on her acting résumé.
She scored cameos on Ugly Betty and a webisode of YouTube's lonelygirl15, before signing on last month to make her film debut in The Last Caller, a dark independent romantic comedy.
The 23-year-old will star in the flick as a self-obsessed woman who searches for love and meaning in her life. Caller shoots in New York this fall.
When news of her premiere casting broke, McPhee also hinted at bigger things to come.
"I'm up for a couple of big studio projects, but they weren't starring roles," she told the Hollywood Reporter at the time. "I wanted to start off doing something a little different. It's something a lot of people wouldn't expect me doing."
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