Shia LaBeouf Saddles Up for Crime Thriller Film GOD OF THE RODEO — GeekTyrant
Shia LaBeouf is set to star in God of the Rodeo , a new crime thriller written and directed by Father Stu filmmaker Rosalind Ross.
The movie is set in Louisiana's infamous Angola Prison in 1967, God of the Rodeo tells the story of Buckkey, 'a hardened inmate serving a life sentence who finds a glimmer of redemption in an unlikely opportunity: the prison's first-ever inmate rodeo.
'As Buckkey and his fellow inmates prepare for a last grasp at glory, they're confronted with the reality that the rodeo is nothing more than a gladiatorial showcase — a grueling fight for survival designed to satiate the public's bloodlust and fulfill the warden's delusion of godliness."
The film is based on journalist Daniel Bergner's real-life reporting from inside the prison which was one the most violent prisons in the American South.
Giannina Scott is producing through her Cara Films label, with Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss on board via Scott Free Films.
It sounds like exactly the kind of role that will give LaBeouf space to go unhinged, soulful, and unpredictable, as he likes to do with the films he stars in.
LaBeouf's been keeping busy. He's currently on screen in Salvable , a Lionsgate drama about a washed-up boxer trying to fix things with his estranged daughter. He's also in David Mamet's Henry Johnson , which adapts Mamet's 2023 play and puts LaBeouf in the middle of a moral tailspin.
God of the Rodeo doesn't have a release date yet, but it sounds like it will be a great project for LaBeouf to take on.
Source: Deadline
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