A film based on Young Stalin, the biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore that charts Joseph Stalin's adventures as a gangster who robs banks in Russia, is in the works. Archil Gelovani and Sergey Yahontov’s Independent Film Project banner from Georgia will produce the film. The makers are expected to commence production on the film in 2025 or 2026.

It will show how a 20-year-old man, nicknamed Soso by his mother, leads a team of revolutionaries in Russia to rob the Imperial Bank way back in 1907 and becomes the one whom the world knows as Stalin today. The events in the film will predate the Russian Revolution.

The official logline describes it as "the Wild Wild East, made up of Cossacks, Bolshevik gunslingers, the Tsar’s secret police and proto fascistic brigades."

Len Blavatnik‘s banner Access Entertainment, which also backed Jonathan Glazer’s Academy Award-winning international feature The Zone of Interest, will finance the film.