Austin Butler (Elvis, Masters of the Air) is ready to star in director Darren Aronofsky’s subsequent movie challenge, a criminal offense thriller titled Caught Stealing. The film is predicated on the ebook by Charlie Huston, who can even write the script.
The story follows Hank Thompson, “a burned-out former baseball participant, as he’s unwittingly plunged right into a wild battle for survival within the downtown legal underworld of ‘90s NYC.”
Aronofsky stated in an announcement: “I’m excited to be teaming up with my outdated pals at Sony Footage to convey Charlie’s adrenaline-soaked curler coaster trip to life. I can’t wait to begin working with Austin and my household of NYC filmmakers.”
Sanford Panitch, President of Sony Footage’ Movement Image Group added: “Darren is without doubt one of the most good audiovisual storytellers on the earth, and adapting these fantastic books by Charlie Huston for Austin to star was too thrilling a chance to not be part of.”
This seems like an important challenge for each Butler and Aronofsky. Right here’s a full description type the ebook:
It’s three thousand miles from the inexperienced fields of glory, the place Henry “name me Hank” Thompson as soon as performed California baseball, to the Decrease East Aspect of Manhattan, the place the tenements are outdated, the rents are excessive, and the drunks are soiled. However now Hank is right here, working as a bartender and caring for a cat named Bud who is definitely going to get him killed.
It begins when Hank’s neighbor, Russ, has to go away city in a rush and fingers over Bud in a service. But it surely isn’t till two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar on the joint the place he works and beat him to a pulp that he begins to get the concept: Somebody needs one thing from him. He simply doesn’t know what it’s, the place it’s, or how one can make them perceive he doesn’t have it.
Inside twenty-four hours Hank is operating over rooftops, swinging his outdated aluminum bat for the candy spot of a man’s head, taking part in conceal and search with the NYPD, driving the subway with a useless man at his facet, and counting an entire lot of money on a concrete ground.
All due to two cowboys, two Russian mafia males, and among the weirdest goons ever assembled in a single place. All due to Bud. All as a result of as soon as, in one other life, in one other world, the one factor Hank needed was to take third base—with out getting caught.
This looks as if a special type of challenge for Aronofsky, and I’m certain that he’ll ship an important movie.
