George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on screen for new romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise

Hollywood veterans George Clooney and Julia Roberts team up for the ultimate romantic comedy.

The 59-year-old madman reunites onscreen with American sweetheart, 53, for a new movie Ticket To Paradise, their first project together since 2016 Money Monster.

In the film – which begins filming later this year – the couple will play a divorced couple who fly to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they made 25 years ago.

Reunion role: George Clooney, 59, and Julia Roberts, 53, are expected to end up onscreen as a divorced couple in the new romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise which will begin filming later this year; seen in 2016

First Days: In Ocean’s Eleven in 2001 with Clooney, Roberts and Brad Pitt

The film is set to be directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) and Clooney’s production company, Smokehouse Pictures, co-produced with Red Om Films and Roberts’ Working Title.

According to the deadline, “ the project came together quickly ” and streaming services revolved around the film, but executives at Universal said they viewed the project as a theatrical feature.

Clooney and Roberts became close friends after appearing onscreen together in Ocean’s Eleven in 2001.

In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, he revealed that he persuaded Julia to do the project with a $ 20 bill, although he had never met her before.

Power Team: The pair initially met at Chateau Marmont for the first time before Ocean’s Eleven, persuading them to do the project with a $ 20 bill; photo 2001

They do well together: the actors of Money Monster in 2016 for the director Jodie Foster

‘Wed [he and director Steven Soderbergh] I heard she was making $ 20 million for a photo at that time, so we offered her $ 20, ” he laughed, Roberts intervening, “ They sent me the scenario with a 20 dollar bill in it. ‘

The friends also opened up about their on-screen and off-screen relationship, with Clooney saying the first word that comes to his mind when he thinks of Julia is “ elegant. ”

They both said they appreciate the sense of camaraderie on set; “This is how we operate – knowing that it’s a team, a family and a group,” said Roberts.

In 2013 she presented him with the Stanley Kubrick Award for Cinematic Excellence at the BAFTA Awards, he turned to her and said: ‘It was such a pleasure to watch the woman you have become’, before to sting, me just to be nice because she will have me later.

Shared Lives: The couple’s friendship spanned 20 years, the two expressing their love for each other’s spouses, George saying they are all like “one family”; seen in 2005

They also both have love for each other’s spouses (Danny Moder and Amal Clooney), George previously said: ‘It was so much fun getting him to meet my wife and having them both of so good friends and to get along so well. … Danny and I are great friends and we love each other. What’s really funny is that it’s really like family.

The duo sat down with People in 2016 in Cannes for Money Monster as they talked about not just being ‘Hollywood friends’, throughout their decade and friendship.

“What a relief that we are not Hollywood friends. I just told him an hour ago, ‘Thank goodness we really love each other or we’d be in hell,’ Roberts said.

True friendship: In a 2016 interview with People, they spoke of a true friendship, Roberts saying: ‘What a relief that we weren’t Hollywood friends … or we would be in hell’