Two of the biggest young actors in Hollywood are facing off for a gritty crime drama that is now being set up at A24. A24 has set “Enemies,” a new film that will star Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White and will be produced by Ari Aster.
This is the second feature for Henry Dunham, the director of the 2018 thriller “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek.” He wrote and will direct the feature about a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer who collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing for their Square Peg banner alongside A24. Alejandro De Leon will also produce. Josh Bachove will executive produce.
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“Enemies” will also return White to the home of “The Bear” and “Shameless,” as it’s set to kick off production in Chicago later this summer.
After the return of Season 4 of “The Bear” later this summer, White will next be seen in “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the Bruce Springsteen biopic for 20th Century Studios. He was also set to star in a film from Jeremiah Zagar called “The Painted Bride” that just landed on the Cannes market. The film is a reunion between him and A24 after he starred in “The Iron Claw” for the distributor. Allen White is represented by WME, Entertainment 360 and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
Butler, who last was seen in “Dune Part 2” and “The Bikeriders,” will appear in another A24 movie actually playing this week at Cannes, Ari Aster’s “Eddington,” and he’ll next be seen in Darren Aronofsky’s neo-noir crime film “Caught Stealing.” Butler is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, The Lede Company and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Dunham is the writer of “Bushido,” a film that will be directed by Hiro Murai. Dunham is represented by Anonymous Content and attorney Stephen Clark of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark.
