US men’s lifestyle magazine Details revealed this month that cover star, Shia LeBeouf, (currently starring in Transformers: Dark of The Moon) turned down leading roles in Fincher’s The Social Network and Boyle’s 127 Hours.
The articles continues to point out that he has walked away from talks to feature in future blockbusters The Bourne Legacy and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Total Film announced that “by turning down David Fincher’s Facebook epic and Danny Boyle’s intense survival thriller, LaBeouf has missed out on three Oscars, seven Golden Globes and numerous other cumulative accolades.”
David Fincher’s 2010 The Social Network charted the founding of the social networking website Facebook through it’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg and the resulting lawsuits. The film featured Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay was based on Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires.
127 Hours was Danny Boyle’s 2010 follow up to Oscar winner, Slumdog Millionaire and starred James Franco as mountain climber, Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah in April 2003.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the upcoming prequel to Planet of the Apes due for release this August and stars, like in 127 Hours, James Franco
The Bourne Legacy will be the fourth instalment in the Bourne saga with Jeremy Renner replacing Matt Damon in the titular role.
Meanwhile, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is currently busy breaking box office records worldwide.
So it appears that Shia is being quite picky with his films? I mean, he turns down critically acclaimed films like The Social Network and 127 Hours but has continued with the Transformers franchise (although he admits that the third will be his last, and I do LOVE this franchise!), Eagle Eye and Indiana Jones? I am not sure what lines he is thinking along, but I honestly believe he is a good actor, I just look forward to the day when he is in a massively acclaimed film and gets the credit he deserves.
