In line with Deadline, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller have joined the forged of Paper Tiger, the upcoming drama from Advert Astra director James Grey. They’ll star alongside Adam Driver, who was beforehand introduced. Johansson and Teller are stepping in as late additions, changing Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Robust, who exited the challenge attributable to scheduling conflicts.
Paper Tiger is described as a “tense and gritty story revolving round two brothers who pursue the American Dream—solely to turn into entangled in a scheme that seems to be too good to be true. As they attempt to navigate their method by way 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 completely unthinkable—now turns into all too attainable.“
Grey is writing and directing the challenge, with manufacturing anticipated to kick off subsequent month in New Jersey.
Johannson has many upcoming initiatives, together with her characteristic directorial debut, Eleanor the Nice. The movie stars June Squibb as a 90-year-old Floridian girl who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old pupil in New York Metropolis. The movie will debut on the upcoming Cannes Movie Pageant. She’s going to subsequent be seen among the many ensemble forged of Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, which can debut at Cannes on Might 18th earlier than hitting theaters on Might thirtieth.
In fact, Johannson’s greatest challenge of the yr is Jurassic World Rebirth. She stars as Zora Bennett, a “expert covert operations skilled who’s contracted to lead a workforce on a top-secret mission to safe genetic materials from the world’s three most huge dinosaurs. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian household whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, all of them discover themselves stranded on an island the place they arrive face-to-face with a sinister, stunning discovery that’s been hidden from the world for many years.” The movie will hit theaters on July 2nd.
As for Teller, he was just lately seen starring alongside Anya Taylor-Pleasure in The Gorge. His subsequent challenge will discover him starring alongside Elizabeth Olsen in Eternity, a romantic comedy from A24 the place everybody should determine who they wish to spend eternity with within the afterlife. That one doesn’t have a launch date but, however is predicted to drop later this yr.