Austin Butler is an Academy Award nominated actor from Anaheim, California. He grew up in close proximity to both Disneyland and Knox Berry Farm, where he would go on a regular basis with his mother and sister. He was "discovered" at 13 years old and began acting on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel for a number of years before graduating to more serious roles. Butler has had roles on "Ruby and the Rockits", "The Carrie Diaries", and "The Shannara Chronicles". After his Broadway debut in 2018, his love of acting was reinvigorated from working alongside Denzel Washington and soon after the play closed, Butler would audition and inevitably prep for his largest role to date... click here to learn more about Mr. Butler.
From Deadline:
A24 had made official that which has already been out there in the ether: 2x The Bear Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White and Oscar nominated Austin Butler are leading Henry Dunham’s new crime saga Enemies.
Dunham is directing and writing. Cameras roll this summer in Chicago on the reported $25M production. In Enemies, a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg are producing alongside A24. Alejandro De Leon will also produce. Josh Bachove will executive produce.
Dunham previously directed the 2018 crime thriller The Standoff at Sparrow Creek which follows a former cop-turned-militia man who investigates a shooting at a police funeral
A24 and Aster have the filmmaker’s latest movie, a western set during Covid, world premiering in competition at Cannes, Eddington. Pic stars Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix. It’s the first time that Aster has hit the Croisette with a feature here.
A24 also has the Spike Lee directed movie, Highest 2 Lowest, which is a redo of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller High and Low. Pic reteams Lee reunites for the fifth time with Denzel Washington. Set in NYC, pic follows a music mogul gets entangled in a ransom plot. The Apple Original Film co-production also stars A$AP Rocky and Ice Spice, Jeffrey Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera.
Dunham is represented by Anonymous Content and attorney Stephen Clark of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark.
Butler is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Allen White is represented by WME, Entertainment 360 and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
Austin Butler is an Academy Award nominated actor from Anaheim, California. He grew up in close proximity to both Disneyland and Knox Berry Farm, where he would go on a regular basis with his mother and sister. He was "discovered" at 13 years old and began acting on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel for a number of years before graduating to more serious roles. Butler has had roles on "Ruby and the Rockits", "The Carrie Diaries", and "The Shannara Chronicles". After his Broadway debut in 2018, his love of acting was reinvigorated from working alongside Denzel Washington and soon after the play closed, Butler would audition and inevitably prep for his largest role to date... click here to learn more about Mr. Butler.