Cat-Sitting Leads to Chaos for Austin Butler in the Trailer for Darren Aronofsky's New Crime-Thriller 'Caught Stealing'
Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith and Bad Bunny also star in the 'Requiem for a Dream', 'Black Swan', 'Mother!' and 'The Whale' filmmaker's latest movie.
On the list of things that no movie lover likely anticipated, Darren Aronofsky getting into fun crime-thriller mode is right up there. Consider the just-dropped trailer for Caught Stealing a surprise then. Here, the filmmaker behind Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah, Mother! and The Whale seems to be taking a leaf out of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels- and Snatch-filled book, all with Austin Butler (The Bikeriders) at the flick's centre.
For Aronofsky, the Elvis Oscar-nominee plays Hank Thompson, who can no longer play baseball after proving a star in high school — but is fine with being a New York bartender, and with his relationship with Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz, The Studio). Then his punk neighbour Russ (Matt Smith, House of the Dragon) makes a simple request. Being asked to cat-sit shouldn't then spark chaos; however that's where this sneak peek at the film goes.
Given the genre, there's soon gangsters after Hank. Avoiding them, trying to work out what's going on and, of course, remaining alive then all become his mission. Among those waving a gun his way: Benito A Martínez Ocasio aka Bad Bunny, giving the music superstar another acting credit (see also: Bullet Train, Cassandro) before he tours to Australia for the first time in 2026.
Regina King (Shirley), Liev Schreiber (The Perfect Couple), Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil: Born Again), Griffin Dunne (Only Murders in the Building) and Carol Kane (Between the Temples) round out Caught Stealing's cast — as the trailer teases not to the tune of Jane's Addiction's 'Been Caught Stealing', but to The Clash's 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'.
Aronofsky, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Black Swan, is working with a screenplay by Charlie Huston (Gotham) — and the latter literally wrote the book, too, that Caught Stealing adapts.
Butler's run of collaborating with top filmmakers continues here, joining Ari Aster (Beau Is Afraid) on fellow upcoming 2025 release Eddington, Baz Luhrmann on Elvis, Jeff Nichols on The Bikeriders, Denis Villeneuve on Dune: Part Two, Quentin Tarantino on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Jim Jarmusch on The Dead Don't Die.
Check out the trailer for Caught Stealing below:
Caught Stealing opens in cinemas Down Under on Thursday, August 28, 2025.
Images: Niko Tavernise.
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