EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of The Iron Claw, director Sean Durkin and A24 have found their next project to team up on and have assembled some serious star power to lead it. Sources tell Deadline Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler are set to star in A24’s adaptation of Deep Cuts, a project based on the highly anticipated debut novel of Holly Brinkley. Durkin is on board to direct and adapt. Ronan is also on board to produce.
Set in the 2000s, Deep Cuts is a love story about two music-obsessed twenty-somethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an era-defining decade.
Produced by Ronan and Central’s Ronald Bronstein, as well Eli Bush and Josh Safdie. The novel was published on February 25.
Durkin’s most recent film The Iron Claw starring Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White was not only a critical darling but one of A24’s bigger domestic hits of 2023. He is repped by UTA and Entertainment 360.
Ronan is coming off a busy 2024 that included the Apple World War II drama Blitz as well as the Sony Pictures Classic film The Outrun. She is repped by CAA.
Butler also had himself a busy 2024 starting with the Apple mini-seires The Masters of Air. On the feature side he starred in Dune: Part Two as well as The Bike Riders. He can be seen next in Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing. He is repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern
Brickley is originally from British Columbia, Canada, and studied at UC Berkeley before getting her MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. She now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two daughters. Deep Cuts is her first novel. She is repped by CAA.
