Austin Butler little doubt will steal every scene in Darren Aronofsky‘s crime caper “Caught Stealing.” The highly-anticipated ’90s-set novel adaptation stars Butler as a former baseball prodigy who will get actually caught up in a mob-fueled treasure hunt.
In a who’s who of NYC staples, Zoë Kravitz, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane co-star within the gritty, LES-shot characteristic. Benito A. Martínez Ocasio AKA Dangerous Bunny, Matt Smith, and Regina King spherical out the buzzy forged.
The official synopsis reads: “Hank Thompson (Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, however all the things else goes okay. He’s received an incredible lady (Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favourite crew is making an underdog run on the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Smith) asks him to maintain his cat for a number of days, Hank all of a sudden finds himself caught in the course of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. All of them need a piece of him; the issue is he has no thought why. As Hank makes an attempt to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s received to make use of all his hustle to remain alive lengthy sufficient to seek out out…”
Aronofsky directs the characteristic from a screenplay by Charlie Huston, who wrote the guide on which the movie is predicated. Huston has a novel trilogy that follows Butler’s anti-hero character, with “Six Dangerous Issues” and “A Harmful Man” within the sequence.
“Caught Stealing” was shot in New York in the course of the fall of 2024 by Aronofsky’s frequent cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, who additionally was the DP on Spike Lee’s newest movie, “Highest 2 Lowest.” Aronofsky produces “Caught Stealing” together with Jeremy Dawson, Dylan Golden, and Ari Handel. Writer Huston and Ann Ruark govt produce.
Aronofsky lately advised Vainness Honest that after directing “The Whale” in 2023, he wished to work on a movie that was lighter in tone. That led him to revisit Huston’s script for “Caught Stealing,” which had been within the works for about 15 years. “I felt like there was simply a lot rigidity in our regular lives that I felt just like the one factor that Hollywood has at all times finished nice is entertain. I checked out my initiatives and I stated, ‘You already know what? Probably the most enjoyable one I’ve is Charlie’s script,’” Aronofsky stated.
He added throughout a French Cinematheque masterclass that the movie is “only a crime caper that we tried to make rather well — and that was a very enjoyable exercise. There’s nothing flawed with taking a traditional style and simply making an attempt to make it higher, and to do issues with actual craft.”
Sony Photos will launch “Caught Stealing” in theaters August 29. Take a look at the trailer beneath.