It’s rare for an actor to speak with candor and honesty about his past projects. It’s even rarer when his past projects are produced by one of Hollywood’s biggest names. Shia LaBeouf has trashed Indiana Jones IV.
It’s not like Indiana Jones needed to be trashed any more. There were swinging monkeys. Badly CGI’d gophers that were on the verge of talking to Indiana and telling him where treasures were hidden. A script by David Koepp that bordered on slapping the audience with a pan repeatedly. Repeatedly. With a pan. And apparently Shia LaBeouf knows this, and talked to reporters in Cannes about it.
You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven. But the actor’s job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn’t do it.
No actor could have made that script work. You could’ve given it to Academy Award winners, it’d still be a film where Indiana Jones climbs into a fridge that gets nuked. It’d still be a movie where aliens come from the space between space to blow up Kate Blanchett’s skull. And if that ruins it for you, congratulations, I saved you precious time.
Strangely enough, he said this while promoting Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. So, you know. Consistency.
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