James Gray’s (The Immigrant) Paper Tigers, is being promoted by film distributor Neon for award season. The crime-thriller starring, Miles Teller (Whiplash), Adam Driver (Marriage Story) and Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) premiers Friday for the first time in North America. It was previously show at Cannes Film Festival for its world premiere. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Neon is promoting Teler for Best Actor, Driver for Best Supporting Actor and Johansson for Best Supporting Actress. The movie follows Teller as he and his brother get unwilling involved with the Russian mafia.
Paper Tiger is the first film of Gray’s to be promoted for Academy season, discluding Ad Astra since Gray has publicly disavowed the film since he it was taken from him and re-edited by 20th century Fox. In a Rolling Stone interview, Gray talks more about what inspired the movie. When recalling a statement he made about the movie being inspired by his trip to Russia in 1984, Gray said,”Yeah, my memory of that trip is very clear. I was there as a student — and the country was broken. Nothing functioned, and the country had started to realize it’s in a state of sclerosis. So that’s when glasnost, perestroika, the introduction of market reforms comes to Russia, and the cracks in the socialist dictatorship begin to come apart.”
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