Katherine Heigl in Life as We Know It

Washington, (ANI): Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl is all set to star in Warner Bros' romance movie Life as We Know It. Greg Berlanti will direct the movie, and Barry Josephson and Paul Brooks will produce it, reports Variety.

The project dates back to 2001, and the story follows two unattached adults whose worlds are turned upside down when their mutual best friends die in an accident and name them as caregivers for their orphaned daughter.

The movie, which had also been at Fox before Warner Bros. took it up, will have Heigl and her mother Nancy Heigl exec producing it.