A24 has greenlit Enemies, a crime drama pairing Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White under Henry Dunham’s direction. The screenplay, also by Dunham, follows a relentless detective in pursuit of an infamous contract killer. Producers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen will oversee the project for Square Peg alongside A24, with Alejandro De Leon producing and Josh Bachove executive producing. Cameras roll this summer in Chicago on a reported $25 million budget.
White reunites with A24 after successes on The Bear and Shameless. Later this year, he appears in the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere for 20th Century Studios. His performance in The Iron Claw demonstrated his skill at embodying complex figures. White is represented by WME, Entertainment 360 and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
Butler, fresh from roles in Dune Part 2 and The Bikeriders, is also featured this week at Cannes in Aster’s Eddington. He’ll next appear in Darren Aronofsky’s neo-noir Caught Stealing. Butler’s representatives include WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, The Lede Company and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Dunham’s previous feature, the 2018 thriller The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, established his knack for tense storytelling. He also wrote Bushido, to be directed by Hiro Murai. Enemies marks another collaboration between Dunham, Square Peg and A24, continuing their focus on bold genre films and fresh voices.
