According to Deadline, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller have joined the solid of Paper Tiger, the upcoming drama from Ad Astra director James Gray. They’ll star alongside Adam Driver, who was beforehand introduced. Johansson and Teller are stepping in as late additions, changing Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, who exited the challenge resulting from scheduling conflicts.
Paper Tiger is described as a “tense and gritty story revolving round 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 completely unthinkable—now turns into all too potential.“
Gray is writing and directing the challenge, with manufacturing anticipated to kick off subsequent month in New Jersey.
Johannson has many upcoming tasks, together with her function directorial debut, Eleanor the Great. The movie stars June Squibb as a 90-year-old Floridian girl who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old scholar in New York City. The movie will debut on the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. She will subsequent be seen among the many ensemble solid of Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, which is able to debut at Cannes on May 18th earlier than hitting theaters on May thirtieth.
Of course, Johannson’s greatest challenge of the yr is Jurassic World Rebirth. She stars as Zora Bennett, a “skilled covert operations expert who is contracted to lead a team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world’s three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.” The movie will hit theaters on July 2nd.
As for Teller, he was not too long ago seen starring alongside Anya Taylor-Joy 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 need to spend eternity with within the afterlife. That one doesn’t have a launch date but, however is predicted to drop later this yr.