EXCLUSIVE: Amid a surfeit of horror initiatives heading to subsequent week’s American Movie Market, right here as an alternative comes a legit blue chip crime-drama-thriller within the form of James Grey‘s subsequent film, Paper Tiger, which is able to star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Robust and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.
That is the kind of undertaking consumers we’ve spoken to this week have been crying out for. One thing elevated. 5 of Grey’s movies have competed for the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition.
Primarily based on Grey’s authentic screenplay, the story is about to comply with two brothers who pursue 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 approach by means of 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 totally unthinkable—now turns into all too attainable.
The undertaking takes Armageddon Time and Advert Astra director Grey again to his We Personal The Evening and Little Odessa roots. Filming is lined up for Q1, 2025.
The Veterans is representing worldwide gross sales rights and introducing the undertaking on the AFM subsequent week. CAA Media Finance will deal with the U.S. rights.
Leone Movie Group will totally finance, with Raffaella Leone producing alongside Rodrigo Teixeira underneath his RT Options banner.
Driver has been nominated for 2 Oscars, 4 Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. His performances embrace Marriage Story and BlacKkKlansman in addition to tv’s Women. He just lately accomplished manufacturing on Father, Mom, Sister, Brother and might at the moment be seen on stage on the Lortel Theater in Maintain On To Me Darling.
Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony winner Robust can at the moment be seen in Ali Abassi’s drama The Apprentice, taking part in Roy Cohn. The Succession star is at the moment in manufacturing on Scott Cooper’s upcoming Springsteen biopic, Ship Me From Nowhere. He made his return to Broadway this spring in An Enemy Of The Folks, for which he received the Tony Award for Finest Actor in a Play.
Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy winner Hathaway is well-known for Les Misérables, The Darkish Knight Rises, Brokeback Mountain, The Satan Wears Prada, and most just lately The Concept of You. She is at the moment in post-production on David Lowery’s Mom Mary for A24 and David Robert Mitchell‘s Flowervale Road for Warner Bros. She’s going to subsequent reprise her position in The Princess Diaries 3 alongside Julie Andrews for Disney.
Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s The Veterans has just lately dealt with Jacques Audiard’s Cannes winner Emilia Perez starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; Walter Salles’ acclaimed I’m Nonetheless Right here with Fernanda Montenegro; and Luca Guadagnino’s Venice drama Queer starring Daniel Criag.
Grey is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen. Driver is repped by MWE and Sloane, Provide. Robust by WME, Suger23, and Hansen, Jacobson. Hathaway is represented by CAA, Leisure 360 and Sloane, Provide.
