EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic Media has signed Charlie Huston, the novelist and screenwriter behind the forthcoming Darren Aronofsky film Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler.
The announcement follows the news earlier this summer that veteran representative David Karp joined Cinetic as a senior manager.
Huston is the author of 13 novels, including the Hank Thompson Trilogy. Recently, they penned the screenplay adaptation of the first book in the series, Caught Stealing, for Sony, which is slated to release the film in theaters on August 29. Also starring Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith and Bad Bunny, among others, 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.
Huston’s spec TV pilot, Arcadia, is now being packaged by Tomorrow Studios. Jennifer Reeder (Shudder’s Perpetrator) is attached to direct their next screenplay, the existential horror comedy How to Kill a Dead Body. Huston also has developed shows for HBO, FX, Max, Sony and Fox. They continue to be represented by Writers House and Katz Golden Lerner LLP.
Other notable clients of Cinetic Media include Richard Linklater, David Gordon Green, Todd Haynes, Aaron Schimberg & Vanessa McDonnell, Matthew Rankin, Killer Films, World of Wonder, Lana Wilson, Betsy West & Julie Cohen, Yance Ford, Matthew Heineman, Petra Costa, and Kevin Macdonald, to name just a few.
