It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about the film adaptation of I Am Number Four. The last time we checked, Michael Bay was set to produce and possibly direct the sci-fi film, but according to THR that’s not the case. DJ Caruso, the man behind Eagle Eye and Disturbia will take on directing duties instead.
Gasp! Could this be news of a DJ Caruso film that won’t feature Shia Labeouf front and center? According to Variety, Caruso will team up with Captain Kirk, I mean Chris Pine for his next film entitled, The Art of Making Money. Both the director and actor are in negotiations with Paramount Studios to work on the upcoming drama.
Hollywood is definitely the land of never say never. So many people let out a sigh of relief when word spread that actor Shia Labeouf was no longer interested in starring in DJ Caruso’s live action adaptation of Y: The Last Man. He stated that the series’ lead character Yorick was too similar to Sam Witwicky from Transformers. He cited his desire to do something different as his reason for backing away from the project. That was then, and this is now. Someone must have spiked his cereal, because now he’s saying that there’s still a possibility that he’ll star in the film after all.
Apparently, Transformers star Shia LaBeouf doesn’t want to keep playing the ordinary guy stuck in an extraordinary situation, as he told Wizard magazine.
It was rumored that LaBeouf would play the lead role of Yorick Brown in D.J. Caruso and Carl Ellsworth’s film adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man. But LaBeouf feels that Brown is too similar to his “Transformers” role of Sam Witwicky.
In Y: The Last Man, Brown is a young man who, due to a plague that kills nearly all the males on the planet, is the last man on earth.
