Doctor Who and House of the Dragon's Matt Smith joins Austin Butler in Caught Stealing
The House of the Dragon star's next project has been announced.
Matt Smith has joined the cast of Caught Stealing, an upcoming crime thriller from the mind of American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
The already star-studded cast boasts the likes of Austin Butler as the lead, while Zoë Kravitz (The Batman), Regina King (Shirley) and now Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) also round out the ensemble.
Of course, fans of Smith's will have just bid farewell to him on our screens (for now) as Daemon Targaryen in House of the Dragon, with season 2 having recently reached its end.
Smith is perhaps also best known for his roles as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who and as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in The Crown.
Smith is also set to star in upcoming folk horror Starve Acre alongside Morfydd Clark, which follows the pair living in rural '70s Yorkshire when their son starts acting out of character.
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As of this new role, details are being kept under wraps for now, but we do know that Caught Stealing is based on the novel of the same name by Charlie Huston.
The story centres on Henry 'Hank' Thompson (Butler), a former professional baseball player who spends his nights working in a Manhattan bar. That is until he is violently beaten up and faced with the fact that someone wants something from him.
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Set in '90s New York, Hank is set to go on a wild journey of survival and instinct as, according to the book's synopsis, "within 24 hours, Hank is running over rooftops, playing hide-and-seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor".
It continues: "All because of some Russian hoods and a flat-out freakshow of goons. All because once, in another life, the only thing Hank wanted to steal was third base - without getting caught."
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Huston himself has adapted the screenplay, so we can assume that the upcoming film will stick pretty close to the source material, and we're sure with those signature Aronofsky twists, it'll be a movie that many will be left talking about.
Aronofsky is best known for his work on films such as The Whale, Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream, to name a few, and the filmmaker is often lauded for his inclusion of surreal elements in his movies.
So, we're sure that despite the initial premise of the film, there will be some pretty trippy turns in store for Caught Stealing.
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