Shubhabrata Dutta
The Garden State is about to welcome three prolific performers of our time! The filming of James Gray’s crime drama film ‘Paper Tiger’ will take place in New Jersey between June 2 and July 17 this year. Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller headline the cast. Gray also wrote the screenplay.
The plot follows two brothers who pursue the American Dream—only to get involved in a scheme that is, more or less, unbelievable. As they try to navigate their way through a dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their loved ones severely terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.” Their bond begins to fray, and betrayal, which was once utterly out of the picture, becomes a possibility.
Adam Driver most recently starred as Cesar Catilina in Francis Ford Coppola’s epic sci-fi drama ‘Megalopolis.’ Among his most notable performances are Charlie Barber in ‘Marriage Story,’ Enzo Ferrari in ‘Ferrari,’ and Maurizio Gucci in ‘House of Gucci.’ In the HBO comedy-drama series ‘Girls,’ he played the part-time carpenter/actor Adam Sackler. He also played Detective Philip “Flip” Zimmerman in Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman.’ We will next see him opposite Cate Blanchett in Jim Jarmusch’s comedy film ‘Father, Mother, Sister, Brother,’ which revolves around estranged siblings meeting after years apart.
Scarlett Johansson has portrayed a variety of roles in the last few years. These include Cousin Hilda in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme,’ Kelly Jones in the rom-com ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ and Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City.’ She also voiced Elita-1 in the animated movie ‘Transformers One.’ We will next see her as covert operative Zora Bennett in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth.’
Miles Teller’s latest performance was as elite sniper Levi Kane in ‘The Gorge,’ co-starring Anya Taylor-Joy. His other recent performances include Jeff, an inmate, in ‘Spiderhead,’ Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, son of Maverick’s late friend Goose, in ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ and heroin addict Brendan McDonough in ‘Only the Brave.’ In TV, Teller played producer Albert S. Ruddy in Paramount+’s ‘The Offer,’ which offers a dramatized retelling of the production of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather,’ and Martin Jones in Prime Video’s crime drama show ‘Too Old to Die Young.’
James Gray is known for directing the Brad-Pitt-led sci-fi drama ‘Ad Astra,’ the coming-of-age film ‘Armageddon Time’ (also starring Strong and Hathaway), and the period film ‘The Immigrant,’ starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jeremy Renner. ‘Paper Tiger’ is poised to carry the themes Gray explored in ‘We Own the Night’ and his feature directorial debut ‘Little Odessa.’
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