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GoLocalProv | News | Could “Elvis” Star Austin Butler’s Next Movie Be Filmed in RI? “We’re in Pursuit,” Says Feinberg
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
Austin Butler. PHOTO: Eva Rinaldi/CC 2.0
Austin Butler, who was Oscar-nominated this 12 months for taking part in Elvis, has a brand new position — crime boss Danny Ryan in Don Winslow’s “Metropolis of Hearth.”
Deadline introduced the casting this week for Winslow’s novel concerning the feuding Moretti and Murphy crime households, set in Windfall within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties.
Steve Feinberg with the Rhode Island Movie and Tv Workplace instructed GoLocal that whereas the movie was simply introduced, the state will work to try to get the film shot regionally.
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“It’s within the early levels — however we’re in full pursuit,” Feinberg instructed GoLocal.
This week, GoLocal additionally first reported that “Good Burger 2” is slated to be filmed in Rhode Island, with particulars being finalized with Paramount Footage.
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“In his first star position set since his Oscar-nominated flip as Elvis Presley, Austin Butler will star in Metropolis on Hearth, an adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel from Sony 3000 Footage. This might be Butler’s first movie as producer, alongside David Heyman and Shane Salerno. The studio has made this a excessive precedence and might be assembly with writers and filmmakers instantly,” reported Deadline.
Deadline continues:
“The trilogy focuses on two legal empires — one Irish, the opposite Italian — that management all of New England. A contemporary-day Helen of Troy occasion tears them aside and begins a brutal battle. Butler will play the principle character, Danny Ryan, compelled to develop from a road soldier right into a ruthless chief to guard his associates, his household and the house he loves. Preventing the Mafia, the native cops and the feds, Danny intends to construct a dynasty or die making an attempt. 3000 Footage exec Drew Reed was instrumental in monitoring the sequence, and Elizabeth Gabler and Marisa Paiva are overseeing for the studio.”
“Thrilled to let you recognize that recent off his Oscar nomination for ELVIS, Austin Butler might be enjoying the lead position of Danny Ryan in my novel #CityOfDreams which might be printed in two weeks on April 18!” Winslow Tweeted this week.
Winslow’s newest novel, “Metropolis of Desires,” comes out on April 18.
A Rhode Island native, Winslow grew up in Perryville in South Kingstown.
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