With Anne Hathaway, Adam Driver and Jeremy Strong on board, James Gray’s Paper Tiger is about to start filming.
James Gray has a filmography that includes the likes of Ad Astra and The Lost City Of Z. He has appeared in a special episode of our podcast too. His latest film, 2022’s Armageddon Time, was an absorbing coming-of-age film set in New York in the 1980s.
The filmmaker is turning his creativity towards the crime genre next, having scripted Paper Tiger, his next directorial outing. Furthermore, he’s bringing two actors from Armageddon Time into his next project, with Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong set to star in the new movie.
Adam Driver has also signed up to complete the leading trio, with the film focusing on two brothers who end up on the hitlist of the Russian mafia.
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According to World Of Reel, the film wil follows ‘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 navigate a world of corruption and violence, they and their family are terrorised by the Russian “Mafiya,” leading to strained bonds and the possibility of betrayal.’
Then, according to The Cinemaholic, Paper Tiger is shooting earlier than planned and being fast tacked into production. An April shoot in New Jersey is being reported, meaning that the project clearly didn’t have any trouble securing funding at the American Film Market last November, when word of the film first appeared. Plans then were for an early spring 2025 shoot and that appears to still be the case.
That means that we could see Paper Tiger arrive in cinemas by the end of this year, although that’d be a long shot. We’ll bring you more as we hear it.
