Kat McPhee to Make Her Acting Debut With an Anything-But-Stellar Cast

Lame Project Alert: The Hollywood Reporter writes that Katharine McPhee is set to act in her first film, and, despite her smashing good looks, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

"American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee will make her studio acting debut in the untitled Anna Faris project for Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison. McPhee, along with Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, Kat Dennings and comedian Dana Goodman, have signed on to co-star in the comedy, which is being directed by Fred Wolf.

The script, written by "Legally Blonde" scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, centers on a Playboy bunny (Faris) who gets kicked out of the Playboy Mansion and becomes the house mother to the lamest sorority on campus. The casting fills in the major roles of the sorority sisters and solidifies the project as the first female-driven comedy to come out of the shingle.

McPhee will play a pregnant hippy, while Stone will be president of the sorority.

Willis will play an insecure young woman who wears a backbrace even though she could have had it removed years ago. Dennings will portray a pierced women’s studies feminist, and Goodman will play the sister who keeps switching majors and should have graduated years ago.

Throw in Meg Ryan as a bag lady who lives outside the house, and you’ve got the least marketable movie ever to be made.