After over a year of speculation, D.J. Caruso has personally confirmed what we’ve all suspected. He will direct the big screen adaptation of Preacher. The director confirmed the news on his official Twitter page, therefore we got it straight from the horses mouth. Fanboys rejoice! A dark and gritty adaptation is on the way.
D.J. Caruso knows a thing or two about finding and cultivating young talent. In 2007, he picked a fresh from Disney Shia Labeouf to headline his Rear Window homage Disturbia, which sent him on a path to super stardom. Now four years later he’s doing the same with British actor Alex Pettyfer who stars as the title character in his sci-fi action flick I Am Number Four. Check out our review…
DreamWorks Pictures has just released a new featurette in promotion of their upcoming film, I Am Number Four. It’s a sci-fi action flick directed by DJ Caruso, who previously helmed Eagle Eye and Disturbia. After watching the video you get one message loud and clear, these kids want to be normal. They’re aliens, they’re good looking, and they want to be left alone. Too bad that’s not going to happen. Take a look…
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.
