This Monkey’s Not Yet Gone to Heaven
A few weeks ago I blogged about Shia LaBeouf turning down the role of monkey-shouldering Yorick Brown in the upcoming Y: The Last Man movie, which is still being scripted. I respected his decision, considering his reason for rejecting the proposed role was that he didn’t want to be typecast. He felt that by the time the film rolled around, he’d have outgrown it.
Smart move, right?
Well … dunno. Geeks of Doom now reports that the actor hasn’t completely dismissed the idea. He just wants to do some other things first before he actually makes a decision, but he loves the idea. So basically we have no clue, and Geeks of Doom—and everyone else—spoke too soon. Hooray.
Substitute pulling the trigger for spinning the rumor wheel, and you've got the LaBeouf mess.
In other film news, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—based on the last book of J.K. Rowling’s children series—will probably be broken up into two movies, the first ending on a cliffhanger. While the Harry Potter novels are monstrous little buggers jam-packed with plot and other enjoyable fantasy crap, making two movies out of one book is just bullshit. If the Lord of the Rings could pull off one movie for each book in the trilogy and make fantastic films, then Harry Potter has no excuse. They just want to make more cash—it’s as simple as that.
And even though it’s not as ridiculous as splitting The Fucking Hobbit into two movies—around 150 pages, give or take, compared to over 500 pages for the first trilogy movie alone—when nobody cares anymore because the Lord of the Rings movie hype is long over, drawing out the Harry Potter movies is still going to stumble just the same. Why? Because the Harry Potter books have ended, and no one’s going to care about the ever-capricious movies and their round table of directors with dramatically varying styles.
That many hours of hobbits might end up something like this. Oh, the horror!
Whether you agree or disagree, the point remains the same: They want your precioussss monkey! Err, I mean money. Damnit, LaBeouf.
Side Note: The Hobbit is one of my all-time favorite books, and I love the Harry Potter books, too. I just can’t believe anyone could justify this crap.
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5 Responses to “This Monkey’s Not Yet Gone to Heaven”
June 26th, 2009 at 3:52 am
“The Fucking Hobbit”, nicely done I think you need to win a blog award for best use of an in-fix.
When I heard about possible plans to do the 2 part Harry Potter Finale I too was peeved, seeing as I strongly prefer Movies to books *gasp* shocker I know, the fact that I’m going to have to pay double just to have the story all wrapped up isn’t cool, and it means Danial Ratcliff gets an extra $20 million for an extra movie that shouldn’t exist.
Saruman=Decpticon, my mind is blown this changes everything I ever knew about everything.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Lol where did I use an infix? You mean hyphens and em dashes? I know, I love those.
Eh, the majority of the country prefers movies to books. It’s not that shocking.
I know, I love Penny Arcade.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Love the Pixies reference.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Ok, Y-The Last Man. Hands down one of my all-time favourite series. Granted, I’d be hard-pressed to name any other series I’d read the whole way through, but let’s not muddy the issue…
My thing here is that I heard – nay, saw, that Jim Carrey was already in line to play Yorrick. And this is going back has to be over a year now. And it wasn’t just that I read it, but I saw it: a picture of him done up as Yorrick with, if I’m not mistaken, a real monkey on his shoulder. Not an official promo shot, but with him looking off to the (viewer’s) right, as though it were taken by a secondary camera while he was maybe looking at the primary one, or somesuch.
Was that just rumour? Did he maybe try out for the role at some point and do some shots all duded up for it? Or was this all a feverish dream of mine? Because I can’t find any info about it online, but I would swear up and down I read a blurb and saw a picture about it. In fact, I’ve been telling people about it all this time. Not, y’know… everyone I come across, or anything… just people who’ve talked about the series.
Any insight on that (be it confirmation of either the rumour/image, or my clearly losing my mind)?
As for Shia The Beef: I can take him or leave him, but I can’t really see him as Yorrick. From what little I’ve seen of his acting, he and Yorrick strike me as two different streams which perhaps shouldn’t be crossed.
Also, I totally saw that picture of Carrey as Yorrick.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I haven’t heard anything about that, but I think it’s safe to say that was just a rumor. They haven’t even started casting for the movie yet, and there’s a good chance Shia will snag the part. As for Jim Carrey … God help us all if he was cast. I can’t see him as Yorik. Yorik’s not even that old LOL.
I agree about Shia the Beef (haha), though. Personally I’d rather have someone who hasn’t become so in the public eye.
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