Sony Footage has acquired Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller “Caught Stealing,” which is able to star Austin Butler.

The movie follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball participant, as he’s unwittingly plunged right into a wild combat for survival within the downtown prison underworld of ‘90s NYC.

“I’m excited to be teaming up with my outdated associates at Sony Footage to carry Charlie’s adrenaline-soaked curler coaster journey to life. I can’t wait to start out working with Austin and my household of NYC filmmakers,” mentioned Oscar-nominated director Aronofsky, whose credit embrace “The Whale,” “Requiem for a Dream” and “Black Swan.”

Charlie Huston will pen the script, which is predicated on his e book of the identical title. Protozoa will produce.

“Darren is without doubt one of the most good audiovisual storytellers on this planet, and adapting these fantastic books by Charlie Huston for Austin to star was too thrilling a chance to not be part of,” mentioned Sony Footage’ Movement Image Group president Sanford Panitch.

Butler was nominated for an Academy Award for finest actor of his starring position in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.”  He’s can at the moment be seen in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune: Half 2” and in Apple TV’s miniseries “Masters of Air.” Up subsequent, Butler will star in Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” and Sony’s 3000 Footage movie adaptation of “Metropolis on Hearth,” which he can even produce with David Heyman and Shane Salerno.

Aronofsky is repped by CAA, Narrative and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Butler is repped by WME, Nameless Content material, Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern and The Lede Firm. Huston is repped by Katz Golden Lerner and Writers Home.

Deadline was first to report the information.