Austin Butler jumps into the crazy, crime-riddled escapades of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Stealing’
He was just supposed to watch the cat. Now he’s running for his f**king life.
Darren Aronofsky is a singular auteur force in modern cinema, and every time he returns to the big screen with another project, it’s a celebration of just how far the medium can be pushed. Now, he’s enlisting rising Hollywood star Austin Butler to lead his all-out punk rock, balls-to-the-wall rush of crime caper cinema in Caught Stealing. And this is going to be a wild, bat-shit crazy experience for cinemas.
Watch the all-new trailer for Caught Stealing below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant.
When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…
Adapted from the classic novel by author Charlie Huston, who also serves as the film’s screenwriter, Aronofsky winds back the clock for this one, taking audiences to the rough and tumble streets of New York circa 1999. Before internet, before cell phones, before CCTV, this was the last glorious crime for criminals to run wild with a measure of creativity and impunity, and Butler’s washed ip baseball player Hank Thompson gets caught up in all of it, as he becomaes a pawn in hid punk rock neighbour Russ (Matt Smith) plan to rip off a set of warring New York crime players. But Hank ain’t having at, and this leads to a crazy game of whack-a-mole with all sorts of gun battles, car chases, and ruckus…. and it’s gonna be wild.
Watching this trailer, you can feel how Aronofsky is bringing a real pre-2000 vibe energy to the picture. It’s like he’s going for broke in his wish to portray this time and place in his own voice, and he’s nailed every part of it. Caught Stealing is brash, sexy, volatile, and in-your-face, and it’s really going to crank audiences up.
Rising Hollywood star Austin Butler also owns the screen with his performance as Hank Thompson, a once-talented baseball phenom turned average joe, who gets pulled into a hell of a melee, and it’s again a different side to Butler’s incredible acting range that is brought out in this picture. It’s also clear that all the girlies are gonna line up for this one as Butler oozes bad-boy heartthrob sex appeal, and Aronofsky has worked to give this picture a real erotic energy in part.
The supporting cast is epic, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Benito A Martínez Ocasio and Matt Smith provide a key level of support within the picture, and it’s clear that this is a real ensemble piece. All of them buy into the pulsating energy that Aronofsky brings to the picture, and help to make this a real love letter to New York City and its atmosphere as the city that never sleeps!
Caught Stealing is shaping up to be a wild rush of the cinema going expeirnece and you’re not going to wsnt to miss out on this one when it arrives in cinemas on August 28.
Image: Sony Pictures
