The filming of the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, has been put on hiatus due to a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state of Queensland, Australia. The two actors therefore had to return to the United States.
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The production had started last year and was only in its last two weeks of filming. She was suspended for three months.
Directed by British director Ol Parker (Mama Mia! Here we go again, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Ticket to Paradise tells the story of a divorced couple who travel to Bali to stop their daughter from getting married and making the same mistake they made 25 years earlier.
The crew was to film at several locations in the region, including the Whitsunday Islands, which were to serve as the Bali setting, as well as Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
According to the daily Daily Mail Australia, George Clooney shaved the beard he had grown for filming before taking a flight to Honolulu and then to California.
Universal had planned the theatrical release of Ticket to Paradise for September 30, but the studio then postponed the date to October 21. This forced break could however delay the release of the film again.
By the time filming locations were announced in March 2021, film and television production was in full swing in Australia. Very strict customs controls had also kept the country safe from previous waves of coronavirus. But the arrival of the Omnicron variant has changed the situation.
After the success of Ocean’s Eleven, Julia Roberts and George Clooney had found themselves on the sets of Money Monster, thriller by Jodie Foster released in 2016.