Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit) and Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick, Whiplash) have boarded “Paper Tiger” from filmmaker James Gray. Johansson and Teller will join Adam Driver in the powerful upcoming movie. The movie will be produced by Rodrigo Teixeira under his RT Features banner and frequent collaborator Anthony Katagas under AK Productions alongside Raffaella Leone, Gary Farkas, Marco Perego, Carlo Salem, and Andrea Bucko. Executive producers include Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Riccardo Maddalosso and Emille Salveson. Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s The Veterans is representing the international sales rights and CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights.
“Paper Tiger” is a tense and gritty story about two brothers’ pursuit of 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.
“Paper Tiger” will begin production next month in New Jersey.
