James Gray, the director of “Ad Astra,” has revealed his subsequent movie, an unique screenplay and crime drama referred to as “Paper Tiger.”
Gray’s newest movie, his ninth function, will star Adam Driver and can reunite him together with his stars from 2022’s “Armageddon Time,” Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway.
“Paper Tiger” is described as a tense and gritty story about two brothers pursuing the American Dream, solely to change into entangled in a scheme that seems to be too good to be true. As they attempt to navigate their means via an ever-more harmful world of corruption and violence, they discover themselves and their household brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.”
The movie is being launched to consumers at subsequent week’s AFM, with CAA Media Finance dealing with U.S. rights and Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s The Veterans dealing with worldwide gross sales. The worldwide rights to the movie can be found.
Principal pictures will start on “Paper Tiger” in early 2025.
Leone Film Group is totally financing the movie, with Raffaella Leone producing alongside Rodrigo Teixeira underneath his RT Options banner.
Driver was most lately seen in “Megalopolis” and lately accomplished manufacturing on Jim Jarmusch’s subsequent movie “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.” He’s additionally appearing on stage on the Lortel Theater in an Off-Broadway manufacturing referred to as “Hold On to Me Darling.”
Strong could be seen in “The Apprentice” as Roy Cohn alongside Sebastian Stan as a younger Donald Trump. He’s at present in manufacturing on Scott Cooper’s “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White.
Hathaway starred on this yr’s “The Idea of You” and is in publish on David Lowery’s subsequent movie for A24, “Mother Mary,” in addition to David Robert Mitchell’s “Flowervale Street” for Warner Bros. She’s additionally set to reprise her function in “The Princess Diaries 3” alongside Julie Andrews for Disney.
Gray’s function debut was Little Odessa in 1994. He has since made seven different options together with, “We Own the Night,” “Two Lovers,” and “The Lost City of Z.” 5 of his movies have competed for the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Film Competition.
Gray is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Pattern & Klein. Driver is repped by MWE and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern. Strong by WME, Suger23, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Hathaway is represented by CAA, Leisure 360 and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern.
Deadline first reported the information.
