Zoë Kravitz will star alongside Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime thriller Caught Stealing.

Deadline studies that Zoë Kravitz is ready to star alongside Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing.

The Sony Pictures undertaking is predicated on the ebook by Charlie Huston, who will write the script for the film as nicely. Caught Stealing 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.” It’s not recognized who Kravitz will play in the undertaking.

“I am excited to be teaming up with my old friends at Sony Pictures to bring Charlie’s adrenaline-soaked roller coaster ride to life,” Aronofsky mentioned in an announcement earlier this yr. “I can’t wait to start working with Austin and my family of NYC filmmakers.” Sanford Panitch, President of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, added, “Darren is without doubt one of the most sensible audiovisual storytellers in the world, and adapting these fantastic books by Charlie Huston for Austin to star was too thrilling a possibility to not be part of.“

Before Zoë Kravitz units her sights on Caught Stealing, she shall be overseeing the discharge of her directorial debut, Blink Twice, which she additionally co-wrote. You could recall that the movie was initially introduced below the title of Pussy Island, and Kravitz not too long ago defined why she was pressured to change it. “It was made very clear to me that ‘p—y’ is a word that we, our society, are not ready to embrace yet,” she mentioned. “There were a lot of roadblocks along the way, whether it be the MPAA not wanting to put it on a poster, or a billboard, or a kiosk; movie theaters not wanting to put it on a ticket.” Kravitz added that she was shocked to be taught that girls have been really those who have been most offended by the title.

“Interestingly enough, after researching it, women were offended by the word, and women seeing the title were saying, ‘I don’t want to see that movie,’ which is part of the reason I wanted to try and use the word, which is trying to reclaim the word, and not make it something that we’re so uncomfortable using,” Kravitz mentioned. “But we’re not there but. And I feel that’s one thing I’ve the accountability as a filmmaker to pay attention to. I care about individuals seeing the movie, and I care about the way it makes individuals really feel.“

Blink Twice will hit theaters on August twenty third.