Austin Butler is teaming up with Darren Aronofsky for his next feature. Hot off his creepy villain turn in 'Dune: Part Two,' Butler is set to next star in the Aronofsky crime thriller 'Caught Stealing.' Acquired by Sony and based on the book by Charlie Huston, the film "follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, as he's unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of '90s NYC."
00:00Austin Butler is teaming up with Darren Aronofsky for his next feature.
00:04Hot off his creepy villain turn in Dune Part 2, Butler is set to next star in the Aronofsky crime thriller Caught Stealing.
00:11Acquired by Sony and based on the book by Charlie Huston, the film follows Hank Thompson, a burnt-out former baseball player,
00:18as he unwittingly plunges into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of 90s New York City.
00:24Butler rose to new levels of critical acclaim with 2022's Elvis, the Baz Luhrmann biopic that earned Butler his first Oscar nomination.
00:32In Dune Part 2, the actor earned a strong reaction for his work as a psychotic villain who goes toe-to-toe with Timothee Chalamet's Paul Atreides.
00:40Coming up, he has the 1960s motorcycle drama The Bike Riders out in June,
00:45and on the small screen, he recently starred in the World War II aviation drama Masters of the Air for Apple TV+.
00:51This film pairs Butler with another high-profile director after working with Dune 2's Denis Villeneuve and Elvis' Lerman.
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