James Gray is putting together an all-star cast for his latest project.
Deadline reports that Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller will star in Gray’s Paper Tiger, joining the previously cast Adam Driver. Johansson and Teller are stepping into roles previously set for Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, respectively.
Gray will serve as writer and director, coming off his latest project, Armageddon Time, in 2022. He’s quite the name in Hollywood, as five of his films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Per sources, Paper Tiger is “described as a tense and gritty story revolving around two brothers who pursue the American Dream—only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through an ever-more dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by the Russian ‘Mafiya.’ Their bond begins to fray, and betrayal—once utterly unthinkable—now becomes all too possible.”
Paper Tiger will be produced by Rodrigo Teixeira under his RT Features banner and frequent collaborator Anthony Katagas under AK Productions alongside Raffaella Leone, Gary Farkas, Marco Perego, Carlo Salem, and Andrea Bucko.
Production on Paper Tiger is set to start next month in New Jersey.
