The Puerto Rican rapper completes the cast of this crime thriller set in the 1990s.
Caught Stealingthe future project of the director of The Whaleis slowly taking shape. After getting their hands on rising Hollywood star Austin Butler and Oscar-winning actress Regina King, the star of the series Watchmen, Darren Aronofsky recruited Bad Bunny.
The global Latin pop star is not at his first attempt in front of the camera. On the small screen, he played Arturo “Kitty” Paez during four episodes of the series Narcos : Mexicothen last year, Felipe, in the series Cassandro, available on Prime Video – the true story of a Mexican wrestler who brought light to the LGBTQ+ community. In cinema, he also played “The Wolf”, one of the colorful protagonists of Bullet Train by David Leitch, released two years ago. He then almost joined the world of superheroes, but his film project around the character El Muerto, set in Sony’s Spider-Man universe, fell through.
Putting aside his music career and changing genres, Bad Bunny returns for a police thriller that will certainly not fail to be psychological as well. After all, that is the genre of the house – the director is also behind Requiem for a Dream et Black Swann. The latter embarks with him on the way Zoë Kravitz(The Batman, Big Little Lies) who has just made his debut behind the camera with Blink Twiceas well as Matt Smith (The Crown, House of the Dragon), according to Deadline.
For now, only the role attributed to Austin Butler is known. He will play the main character, Henry “Hank” Thompson, a former baseball player who now survives in the criminal world of New York in the 90s. The story is based on a thriller written in 2004 by Charlie Huston and never translated into French, here is the summary:
“Henry ‘Call Me Hank’ Thompson used to be on the California baseball team. Now he hangs out in a Manhattan bar on the Lower East Side. When two Russians in tracksuits beat up Hank, he realizes right away: Someone wants something from him. But he doesn’t know what, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn’t have what they want. Over the next twenty hours, Hank runs across rooftops, plays cat-and-mouse with the New York police, rides the subway with a dead man under his arm, and picks up a wad of cash off the pavement. All because of a few hooded Russians and a parade of goons. All because once, in another life, the only thing Hank wanted to steal was third base—and not get caught.”
Caught Stealing does not have a release date yet.
