EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic Media has signed Charlie Huston, the novelist and screenwriter behind the forthcoming Darren Aronofsky movie Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler.
The announcement follows the information earlier this summer season that veteran consultant David Karp joined Cinetic as a senior supervisor.
Huston is the writer of 13 novels, together with the Hank Thompson Trilogy. Lately, they penned the screenplay adaptation of the primary e-book within the sequence, Caught Stealing, for Sony, which is slated to launch the movie in theaters on August 29. Additionally starring Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith and Unhealthy Bunny, amongst others, the movie follows Hank Thompson (Butler), 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.
Huston’s spec TV pilot, Arcadia, is now being packaged by Tomorrow Studios. Jennifer Reeder (Shudder’s Perpetrator) is connected to direct their subsequent screenplay, the existential horror comedy Easy methods to Kill a Useless Physique. Huston additionally has developed reveals for HBO, FX, Max, Sony and Fox. They proceed to be represented by Writers Home and Katz Golden Lerner LLP.
Different notable shoppers of Cinetic Media embody Richard Linklater, David Gordon Inexperienced, Todd Haynes, Aaron Schimberg & Vanessa McDonnell, Matthew Rankin, Killer Movies, World of Marvel, Lana Wilson, Betsy West & Julie Cohen, Yance Ford, Matthew Heineman, Petra Costa, and Kevin Macdonald, to call only a few.
