Having spent the last three years working on his well-publicized personal issues that have seen him hoovering up headlines for all the wrong reasons, Shia LaBeouf has been gearing up to make a comeback against all odds.
Abel Ferrara’s biographical drama Padre Pio is on the way, with the maverick filmmaker having no issues hiring such a controversial star on the basis that he’d let his acting do the talking, while he’s also landed a plum gig in Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating epic Megalopolis.
Reports additionally offered that LaBeouf would be teaming with Spree filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko for a pandemic-era romance where the former Disney child star would be playing a skateboarding influencer. According to World of Reel, the actor’s team were allegedly demanding final cut of the film, which sounds strange considering shooting hadn’t even started yet.
Furthermore, the outlet is now offering that LaBeouf has exited the project altogether, with his withdrawal blamed “on account of the unprofessional and unprepared nature of the production.” That’s about the extent of the information made available, and it hasn’t been corroborated by any official sources as of yet, but it doesn’t sound outside the realms of believability given his reputation.
Take it with a pinch of salt for now, then, but LaBeouf storming off wouldn’t be an earth-shattering development, based on both his short fuse and desire to strive for perfectionism, an approach that has largely defined his career so far – and not always for the better, to put it lightly.
