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Sony Photos has acquired Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller “Caught Stealing,” which can star Austin Butler.
The movie follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball participant, as he is unwittingly plunged right into a wild struggle for survival within the downtown legal underworld of ’90s NYC.
“I’m excited to be teaming up with my previous associates at Sony Photos to deliver Charlie’s adrenaline-soaked curler coaster experience to life. I am unable to wait to start out working with Austin and my household of NYC filmmakers,” mentioned Oscar-nominated director Aronofsky, whose credit embody “The Whale,” “Requiem for a Dream” and “Black Swan.”
Charlie Huston will pen the script, which is predicated on his e-book of the identical identify. Protozoa will produce.
“Darren is among the most good audiovisual storytellers on this planet, and adapting these great books by Charlie Huston for Austin to star was too thrilling a chance to not be part of,” mentioned Sony Photos’ Movement Image Group president Sanford Panitch.
Butler was nominated for an Academy Award for finest actor for his starring function in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.” He can at present be seen in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune: Half 2” and in Apple TV’s miniseries “Masters of Air.” Up subsequent, Butler will star in Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” and Sony’s 3000 Photos movie adaptation of “Metropolis on Hearth,” which he can even produce with David Heyman and Shane Salerno.
Aronofsky is repped by CAA, Narrative and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Butler is repped by WME, Nameless Content material, Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern and The Led Firm. Huston is repped by Katz Golden Lerner and Writers Home.
Deadline was the primary to report the information.
Austin Butler to Lead Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Stealing’ at Sony
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