

The story follows Vanzin (Skarsgård), the Team’s leader whose sense of duty is tested when he’s charged with hunting down and exterminating a tiger that killed a poacher in self-defense. "Set in snowy far east Russia in the late 90s, the feature follows a group of men - referred to as the Tiger Team - who work to protect endangered tigers from poachers and logging operations. The official synopsis for The Tiger (via Deadline) reads: Aronofsky is still a producer on the film. The film has been in the works for over a decade and once had Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Mother!) attached as director, with Brad Pitt in the lead. Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, best known for his 2014 film The Tribe, will write and direct The Tiger, based on John Vaillant’s nonfiction book of the same name.

The film is inspired by the chilling true story of a man-eating tiger in ‘90s Russia. Alexander Skarsgård and Dane DeHaan are set to headline The Tiger.
