With James Gray’s (“Ad Astra”) new crime flick “Paper Tiger” making a grand debut at the Cannes Film Festival after getting scooped up by NEON, some new images from the anticipated pic starring Miles Teller, Scarlett Johansson, and Adam Driver have made their way online (the former two actors replacing Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway due to scheduling issues with Driver sticking throughout the hiccups).
Those images are making their way to us from a new piece on the film at Vanity Fair, alongside some nifty quotes from the acclaimed director talking up his new feature effort and his previous personal outing, “Armageddon Time.”
“If someone says, ‘I hated that movie [‘Armageddon Time’],’ it means they hate part of me,” Gray says. As “Paper Tiger” is another attempt to tap into his life, but this time with an “original story” that explains why he was trying to reunite with Strong and Hathaway (played versions of his parents). “It was like something coalesced in me to try and reveal this family later in a different mode, maybe slightly more operatic, slightly more rooted in melodrama, Hitchcockian, suspense, drama—a little more heightened,” the director stated on how the two films will differ from each other.
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In “Paper Tiger,” Teller and Driver are set to play brothers trying to achieve the American dream, as they 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.”
Driver, becoming a standout actor of his generation, has been known to choose projects based on directors after teaming with a slew of talented filmmakers such as Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story,” “White Noise”), Ridley Scott (“Gucci,” “The Last Duel”), Michael Mann (“Ferrari”), Francis Ford Coppola (“Megalopolis”), Jim Jarmush (“The Dead Don’t Die,” “Father Mother Sister Brother”), Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”), Martin Scorsese (“Silence”), Jeff Nicols (“Midnight Special”), Terry Gilliam (“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”), Steven Soderbergh (“Logan Lucky”), and others in the past.
While Driver has yet to be confirmed by either Mann or Amazon MGM Studios, there had been talk of Driver taking a key role in “Heat 2” alongside fellow Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale, with rumblings of a production start sometime this year.
As we get excited for the first round of reviews and impressions of “Paper Tiger” from Cannes, alongside the hope for some clips and a teaser trailer, until then, you can check out those new images below.
New look at James Gray‘s ‘PAPER TIGER’ starring Scarlett Johansson, Miles Teller and Adam Driver.
— Film Crave (@_filmcrave) May 11, 2026
It follows two brothers as they try to achieve the American dream, only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. pic.twitter.com/CEaYeaAjEx
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