Julia Roberts; Jennifer Aniston.Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty
Comedy royalty is joining forces!
Julia RobertsandJennifer Anistonare set to team up ina body-swap comedyfilm fromMargot Robbie,Tom Ackerleyand Josey McNamara’s LuckyChap Entertainment production company, according to Deadline.
Alongside LuckyChap, Barbarow will produce, with Roberts' Red Om Films and Aniston’s Echo Films, per Deadline.
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Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts.Christopher Polk/WireImage
Roberts, 55, is fresh off the success of her recent romantic comedyTicketto Paradise, costarring longtime friend and past onscreen collaboratorGeorge Clooney.
The film opened to $16.3 million at the domestic box office back in October 2022, and has raked in aglobal total of nearly $170 millionsince its release, according to Box Office Mojo.
Though it currently holds an87% audience scoreon Rotten Tomatoes, Roberts joked early onthat the movie would be likely “terrible.”
“It’s so funny and George is so funny and George and I together, it’sprobably going to be terriblebecause there’s too much potential for it to be great,” thePretty Womanactress toldVarietyin May. “It’ll just implode on itself.”
Meanwhile, on Monday,Netflixdebuted thefirst trailer forMurder Mystery 2, a Paris-set sequel to the record-breaking 2019 comedy starring Aniston, 53, andAdam Sandler.
Set four years after the events of the first film, this time, Sandler, 56, and Aniston’s Nick and Audrey Spitz are full-time detectives trying to launch their own private-eye agency.
Whenthey get a wedding invite from palthe Maharaja (Adeel Akhtar) on his private island, “trouble follows the Spitzes again when the groom is kidnapped for ransom soon after the festivities begin — making each glamorous guest, family member and the bride herself a suspect,” per a synopsis.
source: people.com
