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.
