Austin Butler stars in Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing for Sony

Get out of the scary villain turn Sand Dunes: Part TwoAustin Butler is preparing a new feature.

Butler will star in the crime thriller Caught stealingWhich hails from director Darren Aronofsky. Sony has acquired the package, which is based on the book by Charlie Huston and, according to the tagline, “follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, as he is unwittingly plunged into a brutal battle for survival in the criminal downtown underworld.” From the 90s in New York City.”

Houston is writing the script. Aronofsky’s producing through Protozoa Pictures.

Butler rose to new levels of critical acclaim with 2022 Elvis, the Baz Luhrmann biopic for which Butler received his first Academy Award nomination. in Sand Dunes: Part Two, Butler received strong reaction for his work as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the psychotic villain who takes on Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides. Coming up, he has a 60s motorcycle drama Cyclists in June. On the small screen, he recently starred in the World War II aviation drama Air masters For Apple TV+.

For Butler, Caught stealing He splits it with another author after working with him Sand dunes 2Denis Villeneuve and ElvisLuhrmann. Aronofsky was last in theaters as of 2022 Whalewhich gave Brendan Fraser the Academy Award for Best Actor in the year Butler was also nominated.

“I’m excited to collaborate with my old friends at Sony Pictures to bring Charlie’s adrenaline-filled ride to life. I can’t wait to start working with Austin and my family of filmmakers in New York City,” said Aronofsky.

Sony has a number of high-profile projects in the works, including a four-picture Beatles biopic for Sam Mendes and a Danny Boyle film. After 28 years.

“Darren is one of the world’s finest audio-visual storytellers, and adapting these wonderful books by Charlie Huston for Austin was too exciting an opportunity to not be a part of,” said Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture. group.

Aronofsky is repped by CAA, Narrative and Goodman Genow. Butler is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and Sloane Offer. Houston is repped by Katz GoldenLerner and Beat Writers.

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