EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) has signed on to star alongside Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz in Caught Stealing, Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller for Sony Pictures, based on the books by Charlie Huston.
Adapted for the screen by Huston, the film follows Hank Thompson (Butler), 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.
Details as to King’s role are under wraps. Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing. The winner of an Academy Award and numerous other accolades for her supporting turn in Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, King has also won four Emmys for her work on series including Watchmen, American Crime, and Seven Seconds.
Most recently, she portrayed America’s first Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in writer-director John Ridley’s Netflix pic Shirley, also exec producing and directing on David E.
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