Following his “Armageddon Time” drama, filmmaker James Gray (“Ad Astra,” “We Own the Night”) has been connected to direct a collection in regards to the lifetime of Norman Mailer and a biopic a couple of younger John F. Kennedy. Nonetheless, generally, tasks in Hollywood come collectively quick, particularly when there’s a sizzling solid connected. And that’s exactly what’s occurred with “Paper Tigers,” a brand new undertaking that Gray will write and direct starring Academy Award nominee Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman,” “Marriage Story”), Emmy and Tony Award winner Jeremy Strong ( “Succession,” The Apprentice”), and Academy Award Winner Anne Hathaway (“Les Misérables,” “The Devil Wears Prada”).
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Leone Movie Group will absolutely finance, with Raffaella Leone producing alongside Rodrigo Teixeira beneath his RT Options banner. Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s The Veterans will characterize the worldwide gross sales rights and introduce the movie to consumers subsequent week throughout AFM, whereas CAA Media Finance will deal with the U.S. rights. The worldwide rights to the movie can be found.
Principal images is about to start Q1 2025, so it’s undoubtedly leaping to the top of Gray’s queue. “Paper Tiger” is a tense and gritty story of two brothers pursuing the American Dream—solely to turn into entangled in a scheme that seems to be too good to be true. As they attempt to navigate their approach via an ever-more harmful world of corruption and violence, they discover themselves and their household brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.” Their bond begins to fray, and betrayal—as soon as completely unthinkable—now turns into all too attainable.
For Strong and Hathaway, this can be a reunion, as they each starred in Gray’s aforementioned “Armageddon Time.” Driver is new to the Gray troupe, however the two-time Oscar nominee undoubtedly suits in properly together with his oeuvre. Driver just lately accomplished manufacturing on Jim Jarmusch’s“Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.”
Strong is presently in manufacturing on Scott Cooper’s upcoming Springsteen biopic, “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” and Hathaway is presently in post-production on David Lowery’s “Mother Mary” for A24 and David Robert Mitchell‘s “Flowervale Street” for Warner Bros.
Now, it’s attainable this undertaking may very well be prepared by the top of the yr 2025, however given how crowded subsequent yr is as a result of layover from the strikes, the movie might sit out till 2026. Both approach, James Gray cinema is all the time greater than welcome.
