Filmmaker James Gray has set a star-studded cast for his feature "Armageddon Time" with actors Oscar Isaac, Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro coming aboard. The film is being described as a coming-of-age tale based on Gray's own childhood memories of growing up in Queens, New York in the mid-1980s and explores friendship and loyalty against the backdrop of an America poised to elect Ronald Reagan as president.

It recounts Gray's upbringing in the New York borough of Queens as a student at Kew-Forest, a private school which counts Donald Trump and Hank Azaria among its alumnae. Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett was the first one to came aboard the project when it was announced in May. The movie will also feature veteran actor Donald Sutherland, who had also starred in Gray's previous directorial "Ad Astra". Gray will direct from his own original screenplay. The project will be produced by Rodrigo Teixeira through his RT Features.