Julia Roberts and Clive Owen have signed on to star in Universal Pictures' drama 'Duplicity'. Seen in this file photo Julia Roberts is honored at American Cinematheque's 2007 Award Show, held at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Photo Credit: Russ Einhorn / Splash NewsWashington, Nov 1 (ANI): Julia Roberts and Clive Owen have signed on to star in Universal Pictures' drama Duplicity.
The film is to be directed by Tony Gilroy with Jennifer Fox and Laura Bickford producing.
In the movie, Roberts and Owen play longtime lovers who happen 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, reports Variety.
Duplicity will be Gilroy's second directing effort following the George Clooney-starrer Michael Clayton. He previously wrote three Bourne Identity films for Universal.
Roberts and Owen co-starred in the Mike Nichols-directed Closer.
In the meantime, Roberts stars with Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the Nichols-directed Charlie Wilson's War while Owen will first finish the Tom Tykwer-directed The International before starting work on Duplicity.
Bickford is producing Guerilla and The Argentine, back-to-back films on Che Guevara that are being directed by Steven Soderbergh and star Benicio Del Toro. (ANI)