Duplicity News

The 'Bad Santa' Star to Star in Julia Roberts' New Drama

January 24, 2008 01:01:38

The successful "Bad Santa" star Billy Bob Thornton is going to join Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in Universal Pictures new drama project "Duplicity". In the film written and helmed by Tony Gilroy, the co-star of Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball" will star opposite Academy Award-nominated actor Tom Wilkinson.

According to Variety, he and Wilkinson are going to play the CEOs of rival pharmaceutical companies racing to corner the market on an innovation that will bring wild profits. Along with them, Roberts and Owen are to play opposite corporate spies who team up to stage an elaborate fraud to manipulate which corporation will win. Further, the film distributed by Universal Pictures is expected to start production in March.

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Julia Roberts and Clive Owen Reunite in Drama Pic Duplicity

November 01, 2007 03:11:03

Last sharing scenes together in 2004's "Closer", Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are about to work hand-in-hand again soon. The pair have both given agreement to topline a dramatic feature from Universal Pictures entitled "Duplicity", Variety has learned.

A caper flick set in the world of big business, project will find Roberts and Owen playing a longtime lovers who happened to work as spies on opposite sides. They then decide to join forces in staging an elaborate con to rip off corporations and steal a valuable product.

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