Tony Gilroy‘s follow-up to Michael Clayton will be Duplicity for Universal Pictures and it currently stars Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson with a script penned by Gilroy. Today we learn Paul Giamatti will be joining the cast.
The move will reunite Giamatti with his “John Adams” co-star Wilkinson as Giamatti plays an industrialist engaged in a fierce game of corporate one-upmanship against a rival titan, played by Wilkinson (who plays Benjamin Franklin in “John Adams”). Roberts and Owen play two spies-turned-corporate operatives who work on opposite sides but are having a clandestine love affair. Billy Bob Thornton had been in talks for the businessman role.
Production is set to shoot in March and April in New York as it was one of the few films to have a script ready to roll as the writers’ strike got underway.
