The Veterans has announced that James Gray (Ad Astra, We Own the Night) will direct Paper Tiger, which is based on his original screenplay and stars Academy Award Nominee Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman, Marriage Story), Emmy and Tony Award Winner Jeremy Strong ( “Succession,” The Apprentice), and Academy Award Winner Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables, The Devil Wears Prada). Leone Film Group will fully finance, with Raffaella Leone producing alongside Rodrigo Teixeira under his RT Features banner. Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s The Veterans will represent the international sales rights and introduce the film to buyers next week during AFM, while CAA Media Finance will handle the U.S. rights. The worldwide rights to the film are available.

With principal photography beginning Q1 2025, Paper Tiger is a tense and gritty story, two brothers pursue 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.