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Michael Douglas and Matt Damon are set to tickle each other’s ivories next spring.

Douglas confirms the duo will team for a Liberace biopic helmed by Steven Soderbergh, who co-produced Douglas’s latest, Solitary Man, and directed Damon in Friday’s whistleblower comedy The Informant!

Douglas will portray the flamboyant piano-playing entertainer while Damon will play Scott Thorson, who sued Liberace for palimony even though the superstar insisted he wasn’t gay.

“Matt’s going to be my young lover,” Douglas tells Sun Media. “Why not? God bless Matt. Hey, it’s easy for me - he’s in his prime. I said to him, ‘Matt, I love you, man. Boy, that Bourne (series) must really be going strong.’ But good for him. He’s right taking chances. All those young guys - (George) Clooney - they’re taking risks … It’s smart trying to mix it up a bit and maintain those franchises and still get to do a picture that turns you on.”

Douglas intends to spend the early part of 2010 preparing for the role after he wraps Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.

“I’m going to spend two or three months, just researching. I’ll get the voice and figure out the piano style. I’m just going to get really comfortable so it’s not a caricature,” he says, clearly intrigued by the challenge. “At this point and at my age, why not? It’s not all autographs and sunglasses.”