Regina King Cast in New Darren Aronofsky Movie Caught Stealing With Austin Butler

Regina King has joined the cast of Darren Aronofsky’s new movie, which is titled Caught Stealing.

Caught Stealing is a new Sony Pictures crime thriller that is being directed by Darren Aronofsky. It was previously announced that Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two, The Bikeriders) and Zoë Kravitz (The Batman, Blink Twice) will both star in the film.

Per Deadline, King has also now joined the cast of Caught Stealing. Details surrounding who she is playing remain under wraps at this time.

King is known for starring in movies such as 1996’s Jerry Maguire, 1998’s Enemy of the State, 1998’s Mighty Joy Young, 2003’s Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, 2005’s Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, 2018’s If Beale Street Could Talk, 2021’s The Harder They Fall, and, most recently, 2024’s Shirley.

She also played Angela Abar/Sister Night in HBO’s Watchmen series, while she also had roles in television shows such as The Boondocks, 24, Southland, The Strain, Shameless, American Crime, and The Leftovers.

Additionally, King directed 2020’s One Night in Miami… with Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom Jr.

What else do we know about Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing?

Deadline’s description of Caught Stealing reads, “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.”

Caught Stealing is based on a 2004 novel of the same name by Charlie Huston. Huston wrote the screenplay for the movie. Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures is producing the film.

Aronofsky is known for directing 1998’s Pi, 2000’s Requiem for a Dream, 2006’s The Fountain, 2008’s The Wrestler, 2010’s Black Swan, 2014’s Noah, 2017’s Mother!, and 2022’s The Whale.

A release date for Caught Stealing has not yet been announced by Sony Pictures.

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