Credit: Variety
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are set to star in Duplicity, a Universal Pictures drama that was written and will be directed by Tony Gilroy. Jennifer Fox is producing with Laura Bickford.
Roberts and Owen are re-teaming after pairing in the Mike Nichols-directed Closer, in which they played a married couple that clashed over her infidelity.
Duplicity offers the chance for the same kind of sparks in a caper pic set in the world of big business. They play longtime lovers who happened to work as spies on opposite sides. They team up to stage an elaborate con to rip off corporations and steal a valuable product.
The film will begin production in March, and is Gilroy’s second directing effort following the George Clooney-starrer Michael Clayton. Gilroy previously wrote the three Jason Bourne films for Universal.
