Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game, Hugo) is in talks to star in the indie comedy King of the Kastle for Benaroya Pictures. The film stars Clive Owen (Children of Men) as a philanderer who is blackmailed by a teenager (Butterfield), with Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) also attached to co-star.Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka (The Sitter) co-wrote and will direct the movie, with Michael Benaroya and Jonathan Gordon producing. The International Film Trust handled sales for King of the Kastle at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.
Butterfield can next be seen in the British drama X Plus Y alongside Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall and Eddie Marsan and fantasy film The White Circus with Chloe Grace Moretz and Andrea Riseborough.