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Trade News | June 10, 2009 | Comments (22)

On Tuesday nights, I get together and put down PBRs with a few area “writers” (and by “writers,” I mean: Guys who put together dog-and-pony shows like this), and we occasionally even talk about books. To my ignorant dismay, conversations often turn to Y: The Last Man, which will have to be my next stab at graphic novels just so I’m not left out in the dark.

Anyway, my knowledge of Brian K. Vaughn’s apparently perfect comic book series is limited to this, which is all I’m capable of adding to the conversation: Shia LaBeouf is attached to play Yorick Brown, while LaBeouf’s Disturbia director, D.J. Caruso, is attached to direct.

Well, now I don’t even have that to fall back on, though it’s probably much to the delight of many who adore the series. Despite the idea of a Y: Last Man trilogy, Shia LaBeouf apparently isn’t interested in the part anymore because the character too closely resembles Sam from Transformers. In an interview with Wizard Magazine, LaBeouf said this:

You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder,” said LaBeouf . “I don’t know if it’s that big a differential. It seems like he’s the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again.” Much like the character of Sam in the Transformers films. He added, “I’m not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around.

Well, there you go: Good news, bad news. The production of the movie has apparently stalled, but hey! At least it probably won’t star LaBeouf.

So, is Joseph Gordon-Levitt too old to play the part? Or do we have to settle for Anton Yelchin, who is a pretty great actor but not all that magnetic. And more importantly, how does LaBeouf plan to branch out now? If he’s not going to do the ordinary guy in extraordinary situations, what the hell has he got left?

Oh yeah. Wall Street 2. Pbbbbbbbt.

Too bad Corin Nemic is not young enough anymore. Whenever I see the above photo, I always envision Parker Lewis with a monkey.


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Comments

THANK FUCK. If this movie does get made, I don't care who plays Yorick because I won't be seeing it.

Posted by: jecca at June 10, 2009 10:36 AM

You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder,” said LaBeouf .

LOL, here's a man who knows how to pick winning scripts. "I'll do Indiana Jones 4 and Transformers 2 but that award-winning comic book? Nah."

Not that we're not all the better for his failings.

(Also, Rowles, seriously, Ex Machina. Same writer. Great book.)

Posted by: twig at June 10, 2009 10:37 AM

my greatest wish is that this is yelchin's breakout role and he rides that shit all the way.

Posted by: gp at June 10, 2009 10:45 AM

Anton Yelchin could totally pull it off. And Shia, as much as I think you're an ok guy and a talent on the rise, read the fucking book. Yorick is much cooler and a deeper character than Sam from Transformers. (Not to mention Y the Last Man is a much deeper story, and your best work is with D.J. Caruso.)

I went to the bat for you with Eagle Eye, kiddo. Time to pay the fuckin' piper. (Try to imagine that last bit spoken by Al Swerengen, for dramatic effect.)

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at June 10, 2009 10:48 AM

"Y" was a great book, at least until the end. I really didn't like the ending but the rest was good enough that it doesn't really matter. I've read a couple of books of "Ex Machina" and I like it more.

Shia is definitely wrong for the role of Yorick, but I'm not sure who would be right. It needs to be a TV series rather than a trilogy of movies anyway.

Posted by: TylerDFC at June 10, 2009 10:54 AM

Take an ordinary guy and put him in an extraordinary situation...

Isn't this like the plot of everything??? To bitch about it just being another ordinary-guy-deals-with-weird-situation seems to sort of miss the point of fiction.

Posted by: Wednesday at June 10, 2009 11:00 AM

Didn't he have monkeys dancing with him at some point in the last Indiana Jones movie?

(That's what I heard, anyways, since I've not stooped low enough to watch it.)

Posted by: malikvlc at June 10, 2009 11:12 AM

I don't know Yelchin well enough to say if he'd make a good Yorick, but I definitely think JGL would do it very well.

DR, Y:TLM is very engaging. I'm still reading it. (Is Y ended? I had no idea. Thus is my knowledge of comics/graphic novels, whatever you want to call them.) I haven't looked at Ex Machina, but probably will soon. Though I still have a loaner copy of From Hell, so not until after that. Which will be after this stupid summer class that is kicking my ass ends.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 10, 2009 11:56 AM

...and I see now that #10, which I recently acquired, is the last.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 10, 2009 11:58 AM

OK, a) Wednesday, awesome and true.
b) Shia needs to learn a little gratitude and perspective.
c) PICK ME! PICK ME! PICK ME! There are about a thousand chicks needed for this movie (sorry, testerone-filled meat sacks), so PICK ME!!! I could be Asian with a good enough make-up team, OR black! And I have combat experience! (insert whiny voice) Come ooooooooooooooon...

Posted by: Patty O'Green at June 10, 2009 12:01 PM

I'm glad to hear this, but I don't see what Spike (his name is Spike, dammit) and Yorick have in common besides the fact that they're both a couple of white boys. And Shia, I'm sorry, but you're just not black.

Posted by: Lucas at June 10, 2009 12:11 PM

He must have been talking with Megan Fox, the genius who said Wonder Woman was "lame".

Posted by: ceejeemcbeegee at June 10, 2009 12:43 PM

To me ANYTHING starring Shia TheDouche is absolute, irredeemable, crap, automatically, from its inception. I don't care if it's the second coming of Citizen Kane. I refuse to lay down my hard earned money on the hype machine surrounding this little sweaty, manic, one-note, shithead.

In fact, I do/will go out of my to download it, NOT watch it and torrent the hell out of it so the studio loses some money.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at June 10, 2009 1:00 PM

Ooooooh, Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be perfect.

Posted by: AdaHaze at June 10, 2009 1:21 PM

I'm not going to join in the piling on of hate for Shia LaBeouf. I think he can be decent when given the chance (Transformers does not count). And did you see his SNL episode? Hilarious!

Posted by: ChristianH at June 10, 2009 1:53 PM

@ ChristianH:
He *was* real sweet in Holes. Did you see that? It's a great, great kid's movie based on an even better book. That would be a good list, or comment diversion. Kids movies that are so good, you hardly mind being forced to watch them repeatedly for months on end.

Posted by: AdaHaze at June 10, 2009 2:02 PM

"To me ANYTHING starring Shia TheDouche is absolute, irredeemable, crap, automatically, from its inception. I don't care if it's the second coming of Citizen Kane. I refuse to lay down my hard earned money on the hype machine surrounding this little sweaty, manic, one-note, shithead.

In fact, I do/will go out of my to download it, NOT watch it and torrent the hell out of it so the studio loses some money."


BarbadoSlim-I totally wanna make out with you for saying that. Too dead on. If nothing else, is it cool if I start referring to him as TheDouche too?

Posted by: gem at June 10, 2009 3:11 PM

I totally wanna make out with you for saying that. Too dead on. If nothing else, is it cool if I start referring to him as TheDouche too?

Posted by: gem at June 10, 2009 3:11 PM

Yes you may, and yes...let's make out.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at June 10, 2009 3:20 PM

Phew.

And AdaHaze? I totally agree, Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be prefect. That guy needs to be given more work.

Posted by: chenry at June 10, 2009 3:48 PM

...Joseph Gordon-Levitt would be prefect. That guy needs to be given more work.

That's what G.I. Joe is for...it'll be such a blockbuster, he'll catapult to stardom and demand top billing, $20 million paychecks, and his own suite at the Holiday Inn.

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at June 10, 2009 4:05 PM

*cough*

God, I hate this series.

*cough*

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at June 10, 2009 8:05 PM

Y is one of my favorite graphic novels and followed it hook link and sinker... 355 is amazing... when DR first told me that Shia was tapped for the role I thought it could be o.k. I now see the point of being to similar to Transformers schlock that the movie would be lumped into that vein rather than the genius that it should be... Ex Machina is a good series that should have gone on longer... Brian K Vaughn is also a Lost writer for the past few seasons...

I don't care who ends up with the role, I will go see it... just make it good!
I'd agree that it should be a tv mini series (on a fucking swearing station, not network... Showtime anyone?)

Posted by: El L Cool J at June 10, 2009 10:03 PM





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