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George Clooney and Julia Roberts are reuniting for better or worse in Universal’s upcoming Ticket to Paradise. The former Ocean’s Eleven co-stars will play a bitter, long-divorced couple who reluctantly join forces to stop their daughter Lily from making an impulsive marriage mistake.
The romantic comedy also stars Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever as Lily, a recent college graduate who plans a celebratory trip to Bali, Indonesia with friend Wren Butler (played by Dever’s Booksmart co-star and American Horror Story actress Billie Lourd). When Lily quickly falls in love with a local and decides to marry, her parents set their differences aside and cook up a plan to orchestrate their daughter’s breakup.
The official trailer, released Wednesday, balances beautiful views of Bali’s beaches with hilarious banter between Clooney and Roberts from the get-go. “Excuse me, ma’am, I need to sit somewhere else,” Roberts alerts an attendant after unexpectedly finding herself sharing a row with her ex-husband on an international flight. “We used to be married.”
“Worst 19 years of my life,” Clooney tells the flight attendant; when Roberts reminds him they were only married for five years, he justifies: “I’m counting the recovery.”
Watch the ring-stealing rom-com hijinks in the full trailer below:
Ticket to Paradise is directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) from a script Parker co-wrote with Daniel Pipski. Variety reports that Roberts and Clooney serve as producers on the film alongside Deborah Balderstone, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Marisa Yeres Gill, Lisa Roberts Gillan, Sarah Harvey, and Grant Heslove. A co-production between Working Title Films, Smokehouse Pictures, and Red Om Films, distribution for the film will be handled by Universal Pictures.
Ticket to Paradise is Return to Rom-Coms for Roberts and Clooney
Ticket to Paradise marks a return to the romantic comedy genre, both for 90s rom-com queen Roberts (Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, My Best Friend’s Wedding) and Clooney.
In an interview with Deadline, Clooney spoke about his return to rom-coms. “I haven’t done a romantic comedy really since One Fine Day, and more than that,” the actor said, referencing the 1996 film where he starred alongside Michelle Pfeiffer as a single working father. He continued:
“I’ve done some sort of snarky ones, you know, and in this one Julia and I just get to be mean to each other in the funniest way, and the minute I read it I called Julia, and I said, ‘Did you get this?’ and she said, ‘Yeah,’ and I said ‘Are you going to do it?’ and she goes ‘Are you going to do it?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, if you do it.’ So, it was just one of those very lucky things.”
Lucky, indeed. Ticket to Paradise is set to hit theaters October 21; the film will make its streaming premiere on Peacock December 5.
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