Paper Tiger (D: James Gray) S: Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway
11-02-24 | 08:05 AM
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Paper Tiger (D: James Gray) S: Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway
EXCLUSIVE: Amid a surfeit of horror projects heading to next week’s American Film Market, here instead comes a legit blue chip crime-drama-thriller in the shape of James Gray‘s next movie, Paper Tiger, which will star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.
This is the type of project buyers we’ve spoken to this week have been crying out for. Something elevated. Five of Gray’s films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Based on Gray’s original screenplay, the story is set to follow 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.
The project takes Armageddon Time and Ad Astra director Gray back to his We Own The Night and Little Odessa roots. Filming is lined up for Q1, 2025.
The Veterans is representing international sales rights and introducing the project at the AFM next week. CAA Media Finance will handle the U.S. rights.
This is the type of project buyers we’ve spoken to this week have been crying out for. Something elevated. Five of Gray’s films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Based on Gray’s original screenplay, the story is set to follow 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.
The project takes Armageddon Time and Ad Astra director Gray back to his We Own The Night and Little Odessa roots. Filming is lined up for Q1, 2025.
The Veterans is representing international sales rights and introducing the project at the AFM next week. CAA Media Finance will handle the U.S. rights.
11-03-24 | 01:34 PM
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Re: Paper Tiger (D: James Gray) S: Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway
James Gray is a good director, but his movies are often slow burns and usually misrepresented in the marketing.
