The actors will star in new romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise, which has been awarded $6.4 million in federal government funding to be made Down Under.
Filming of the big budget blockbuster is expected to begin around Queensland’s Whitsundays later this year.
The rom-com will see Clooney and Roberts play a divorced couple who “team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.”
Minister for the Arts, Paul Fletcher, said the production will create more than 270 local jobs and inject $47 million into the economy.
“I’m so pleased to support Ticket to Paradise with a $6.4 million grant as part of our highly successful Location Incentive Program,” he said in a statement.
The film is the latest in a long list of productions that have moved to Australia during the coronavirus pandemic.
“To date, we have distributed more than $216 million under the Location Incentive to attract 22 productions to Australia, providing more than 12,700 employment opportunities for local cast and crew, and generating work for over 13,500 businesses that support these big productions,” Fletcher added.
Clooney will jet into Australia later this year, while Roberts will arrive this month to start work on another movie.
The film, called Gaslit, is a political thriller about the Watergate scandal co-starring Roberts, Sean Penn and Australian actor Joel Edgerton.