Caffeinated Clint
Shia LaBeouf to be the king of cinema again in 2008?
Was checking out the sides for the upcoming Shia LaBeouf (a.k.a kid that won’t be available until 2010, and only then if you’ve got more moolah than Paris has suss sores) and I gotta say, this sounds pretty good. D.J Caruso, who helmed LaBeouf’s “Disturbia”, is the captain of the tug again here… so I’m not surprised the dialogue and story is virgin-tight, but with a title like that – sounds like something you’d find on the Hallmark channel starring whatever Mandylor brother needs the work most this month – it’s hard to tell.
One of the more intriguing characters they’re casting at the moment is for Agent Toby Grant.
Not that everyone in this film hasn’t got great lines, take this :
The movie has Shia playing a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.
Seems Shia’s brother – in the pic – is killed in a car accident (truck ran a light) but it’s all too suspicious. Later we discover (spoilers) that “it wasn’t the van… it was a power surge. Someone with access to the electric grid…like the traffic cams”.
Grant’s one of the main roles in the film, so it’d be interesting to see who they cast.
They’re also casting for a military chap named Colonel Thompson, as well as a couple of other secondary characters.
Sounds like a good script…. Part “Enemy of the State”, a little “Gleaming the Cube” and I’m thinking – though could be wrong – a smidge “Little Nikita”. The dialogue for Shia’s character, Jerry, is terrific and Rosario Dawson, who’ll play an agent, has a nice meaty role too –nothing you’ve seen her do before. Still, I’m thinking this might be one of the highlights of 2008.
