Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci talk Shia
Posted by admin on July 13th, 2008 | Comments (0)
CS: This is your second movie writing for Shia, so were you able to tailor the dialogue more to what he could do as a character or did you want him to do something different than he has in other movies?
Kurtzman: Yeah, certainly we had a great experience with him on “Transformers” and his voice is very very specific. It actually helped us quite a bit in conceiving his character in “Eagle Eye” and that in turn helped us in the conceiving of his character in “Transformers 2″ so we’re now on Movie #3 with Shia, so I think more than any other actor out there, we have his voice in our heads.
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‘Indiana Jones 4′ Q&A: Shia LaBeouf
Posted by admin on May 22nd, 2008 | Comments (0)
With his turn opposite Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Shia LaBeouf has risen to become a certifiable It Boy in Hollywood. The 21-year-old former Disney Channel star (who scored hits last year with Disturbia and Transformers) is anchoring not just the next Transformers film, but possibly further Indy sequels as well — movies that could make him less a sidekick and more a full-blown adventurer in his own right. (Not that anybody’s doing anything but talking speculatively at this point.) EW.com caught up with LaBeouf to talk about working with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, the unique perils of cigarette smoking, dirty on-set pranks, and what it’s like playing a 1950s greaser…when you weren’t even born until 1986. Read the rest of this entry»
Shia LaBeouf’s Crystal Skull Adventure
Posted by admin on May 22nd, 2008 | Comments (0)
Shia LaBeouf is the hardest working young man in Hollywood. Except for a few unfortunate arrests, he’s kept himself out of the tabloids and off the red carpet, choosing to focus on the work instead. And he’s been in a ridiculous string of hits, appearing in Disturbia, Surf’s Up, and Transformers last year alone and the most anticipated film of 2008, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Shia is a confident and interesting young actor who appears to be afraid of nothing and has one of the best recent resumes in Hollywood for an actor of any age. He sat down recently to speak about meeting Harrison Ford for the first time, growing up poor in Echo Park, negotiating stardom at a young age, his family, judging friends and women, earning oodles of dollars, and even George Lucas’ “dissatisfaction” with the film. Read the rest of this entry»
Shia LaBeouf Calls His ‘Indiana Jones’ Character A ‘Thick-Skinned Little Fighter
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2008 | Comments (0)
If adventure has a name, it must be … Shia LaBeouf? Believe it, says the star of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” who has been more secretive about the project than those dudes protecting the Holy Grail.
Until now. LaBeouf recently sat down with MTV News for his exclusive first interview about the fourth “Indiana Jones” movie. Read below to find out what he thinks about his role as a sidekick, the possible origins of crystal skulls, the prospect of more sequels and why he still thinks Indy should have had a daughter instead.
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Shia Labeouf covers “GQ”
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2008 | Comments (0)
THE (HOT-DOG-VENDING, KNIFE-FIGHTING, BREAK-DANCING, SPIELBERG-WOOING) ADVENTURES OF YOUNG SHIA LABEOUF
Shia LaBeouf, who in a couple of huge weekends last year transformed from a likably quick-witted teen actor best known for his work on the Disney Channel into a likably quick-witted 21-year-old action hero and franchise star, jumps into the back of his new Ford F-150 and reaches for his rifle. This isn’t a movie set. It has taken us exactly thirty-six minutes to get from first hello to here, a gun-club parking lot thirty miles north of Los Angeles, and that’s a real shotgun he’s hefting. It seems like a good idea, for many reasons, to watch his every move. Which is how I spot the rest of the equipment scattered around his flatbed.
“Dude, why do you have five toilet seats?”
LaBeouf sets down his gun and launches into one of his trademark bursts of high-metabolic enthusiasm: “Me and my friends, as an art project, we decided, you know: What canvas has not been really, like, messed with? So we started this toilet-seat collection.”
Behind the scenes with Shia LaBeouf and Harrison Ford
Posted by admin on May 12th, 2008 | Comments (0)
When we last saw Indiana Jones 19 years ago, the intrepid archeologist had sacrificed the Holy Grail but finally won the respect of his father, ending the classic film trilogy on an emotional high note. But wait, there’s more! The new “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” pits our hero against Russian Cold Warriors in search of yet another mystical talisman.
What went on behind the scenes of this fourth installment, again from famed duo Steven Spielberg and George Lucas? We recently met Indy incarnate Harrison Ford, 65, and “Transformers” star Shia LaBeouf, 21, who plays his trusty sidekick (and, possibly, his son), in Los Angeles for an intimate waterside chat. Ford and LaBeouf gave each other a warm, almost familial embrace before settling in for an upscale hungry man’s lunch (both had steak tournedos) and gleefully recounting their adventures on the set. Let’s crack the whip and begin:
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Tracking Down Shia LaBeouf on the Set of Eagle Eye
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2008 | Comments (3)
“I don’t know how much room there is for kissy-kissy bullshit when you are about to die!” - Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf is quickly becoming the go-to guy for tentpole action flicks. He just keeps stuffing his resume with one iconic megapic after the next. Even from his early days, the kid knew how to pick a good sci-fi blockbuster from the meager projects his peers were working on. While he made a name for himself in smaller films such as Disney’s Holes and the Project Greenlight film The Battle of Shaker Heights, he also managed to squeeze himself into such high profile genre projects as I, Robot and “Constantine” playing the smart mouthed sidekick to both Will Smith and Keanu Reeves respectively.
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LaBeouf on Indy 4, Transformers 2 & Y: The Last Man
Posted by admin on January 19th, 2008 | Read Comments (1)
On Friday, ComingSoon.net got to hang out on the set of Paramount Pictures’ upcoming thriller Eagle Eye, which stars Shia LaBeouf, and while we’re excited about his latest project, we of course had to ask a few Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Transformers 2 questions:
ComingSoon.net: It sounds like you might work with director D.J. Caruso for a third time on “Y: The Last Man”?
Shia LaBeouf: Yeah, we’ve been talking about it. “Y: The Last Man” is cool. I don’t know when I would do that though or how I would fit it in. It would be kind of ridiculous to keep doing the same deal over and over. “Y: The Last Man” is kind of similar to some things.We’re both huge fans of that comic book.
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Vanity Fair Interview
Posted by admin on January 7th, 2008 | Comments (2)
Indiana Jones stars Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf take the February 2008 cover of Vanity Fair as photographed by none other than Annie Leibovitz.
Set in 1957, the new film pits Indy against Russian Cold Warriors, including Cate Blanchett, whose character, Agent Spalko, looks like the toughest Soviet customer since Lotte Lenya’s Rosa Klebb took on Sean Connery in From Russia with Love.
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