Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler Play Enemies in the New A24 Movie 'Enemies'
CultureGet this: they’re enemies.By Matthew RobersonMay 14, 2025Photographs: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe ConteSave this storySaveSave this storySaveThe guys are fighting.On Wednesday, A24 officially announced a new movie, Enemies, starring Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler. Per Deadline, the duo will play “a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer” who come together for a “deadly game of cat and mouse.” We don’t know who’s who yet, but we do know that they’re enemies. (Hence the title, Enemies.)The film, which is written and directed by Henry Dunham (2018’s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek), with Ari Aster in a producer role, starts shooting this summer in Chicago. While this is pure speculation, it’s easy to envision The Bear’s White—one of the industry’s very best onscreen cig blasters—as the exhausted Chicago detective who’s never seen a case like this before. Butler, of Elvis fame, meanwhile seems better suited for the elusive assassin. But maybe they’ll be playing against type here—White as the suave criminal, Butler with his sleeves rolled up in front of a detective board. Either way, with two of Hollywood’s buzziest leading men—and perennial GQ street style features—in the mix, we’ll be seated.Based on what we know about Enemies now, the movie is giving Heat vibes, perhaps the seminal two-dudes-who-rock-in-a-cat-and-mouse-game film of our time. And Butler, for what it’s worth, has already been linked to Heat 2, where he’s a popular favorite to take over the late Val Kilmer’s role as Chris Sheherlis.No longer the indie upstart it was last decade, A24 is now undoubtedly one of the big dogs of film and television production. Enemies is yet another signal in that direction.Watch this space for when the Jeremy Allen White-Austin Butler enemy configuration of Enemies is announced.
The guys are fighting.
On Wednesday, A24 officially announced a new movie, Enemies, starring Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler. Per Deadline, the duo will play “a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer” who come together for a “deadly game of cat and mouse.” We don’t know who’s who yet, but we do know that they’re enemies. (Hence the title, Enemies.)
The film, which is written and directed by Henry Dunham (2018’s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek), with Ari Aster in a producer role, starts shooting this summer in Chicago. While this is pure speculation, it’s easy to envision The Bear’s White—one of the industry’s very best onscreen cig blasters—as the exhausted Chicago detective who’s never seen a case like this before. Butler, of Elvis fame, meanwhile seems better suited for the elusive assassin. But maybe they’ll be playing against type here—White as the suave criminal, Butler with his sleeves rolled up in front of a detective board. Either way, with two of Hollywood’s buzziest leading men—and perennial GQ street style features—in the mix, we’ll be seated.
Based on what we know about Enemies now, the movie is giving Heat vibes, perhaps the seminal two-dudes-who-rock-in-a-cat-and-mouse-game film of our time. And Butler, for what it’s worth, has already been linked to Heat 2, where he’s a popular favorite to take over the late Val Kilmer’s role as Chris Sheherlis.
No longer the indie upstart it was last decade, A24 is now undoubtedly one of the big dogs of film and television production. Enemies is yet another signal in that direction.
Watch this space for when the Jeremy Allen White-Austin Butler enemy configuration of Enemies is announced.
