Star is reporting that Shia LaBeouf called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen producers yesterday, to inform them that he may need to amputate one of his injured fingers. Shia injured his hand in a West Hollywood car accident on July 27th. I’m hearing that LaBeouf’s injury has caused a lot of havoc on the production. I can only imagine if doctors do decide to amputate Shia’s pinky finger, it would probably be impossible to shoot and edit around. Last week Bay was telling reporters that they were trying to figure a way to work it into the story: “His two fingers are pretty mashed,” Bay told Access Hollywood. “But we’re figuring out a way to shoot around it, kind of write it in the story.” But one must remember that Hollywood does not shoot a film in sequential order. I’m not sure how it would be possible to write an injury into the story without major reshoots.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
lesson learned. drive carefully.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Wow. A rising star just sort of screwed himself.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
AAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
August 6th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Now he’s a perfect match for Toe-Thumbs! What fortuitous casting! Bravo Michael Bay!
August 6th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
there goes the rumored megan fox shocker scene.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
So you’re saying that Michael Bay might actually care about continuity?
August 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Are ya’ll serious? its really not that big of a deal. Throw a cast round his hand. Worked for Pitt in 7, & jerry Garcia did just fine with half a finger - guitarists tend to need those more than actors.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Peter.
How much of his role has been shot? maybe they should just recast him, they have insurance for this kind misfortunes.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
To the ones above, it’s important to note that according to new reports he WAS NOT DRUNK and was not cited in the accident. It wasn’t his fault.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
thats right, it was just bad luck.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I thought he WAS drunk that’s why he got a DUI, but that the other driver WAS determined at fault due to running a red light.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Wait, wait, wait. They can digitally make giant ass robots, with millions of moving parts, but they can’t digitally put a finger on Shia?
August 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
bottom line…losing a finger must suck so much
hope its not true
August 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Now I really want to see his fingers. That’s too bad that he possibly has to get a finger amputated, but look on the bright side. He’s still rich.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Wow, just at the peek of his career this happens.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Hopefully now he’ll stop drinking, get hooked on pain killers,develop coke habit while trying to keep his spirits up. Have trouble sleeping. Get a massage at the Olsen twins house… And if we’re lucky he’ll be dead by the end of the year.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I’m not to sure how capable this director is with cgi, but they could use it sparingly to attach half a finger on Shia Labeouf.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
DUDE wow Just say that bumble bee ran over it LMAO!!!!!!!
August 6th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Dude
Yer very cool & edgy. Hope all this stuff happens to you.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
This is a serious bummer though somehow in the land of Hollywood you know it’ll all work out.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
that sucks ASS
August 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
That’s terrible. I wish him the best and hope he recovers.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
He should’ve got Kramer to help him get his pinky back
August 6th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
He should just be off with the whole hand and get a hook. It worked well for Buster.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
http://tinyurl.com/5m22bs
Sorry, but it was practically begging to be done.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
uuuh.. losing a finger.. now that’s fucked up..
August 6th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Does the continuity really matter for this donkey turd of a film?
August 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Man I like Shia a lot. But man he screwed himself big time. I can’t believe he would do something so stupid. I’m 22 years old and have never had a drink of beer. Beer taste like shit. I just don’t understand. I feel so bad, because if they do cut his finger off his career is over. That’s not being prejudice against him its just the truth.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
effect -> affect
August 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
That would suck to lose a finger. To err is human, but you have to deal with what you’re given. I just don’t envy his poistion.
I won’t pretend to understand the complexities of a shoot, let alone a Bay production, but I imagine they will work around it. As far as SL’s career… I woulnd’t say it’s over at all. Maybe on the short term as he deals with his recovery, but if he’s a good actor he will vercome it.
James Doohan lost a finger and was able to make it happen.
Best of luck on a speedy recovery for Shia and hope he able to bounce back from it.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I have high doubts about this report..isnt Star mag that sketchy ass magazine, that is not really that trustworthy.. cant believe you guyz are believing this crap. now im not saying the scenerio is not possible. he could have mangled his fingers so bad that even sergury could not work.. he could have infected it, and then the finger started developing gangreen which the only source of stopping it is removing the infected tissue. so meaning removing the finger.. but seriously i hope the report is not true. shia is a good kid.. and for all you guyz that bash on him, shame on yal…if that happened to you, and people started criticizing you for it, well how would you feel..bunch of bitches….nuff said. wish shia a speedy recovery.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Enough LaBeouf though I do wish the best for him. I cant say im exactly thrilled about seeing this movie, pinky or not.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
@john
hahahahahah
August 6th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
@ luis
well said, i 100% agree.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
2 words: paper mache
August 6th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Yeah, I don’t know about this. If it turns out to be true, I’m sure they will find a way to make it work. I’m sure his finger could be edited out in post if need be.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
It’s total BS - look at the pic posted of him with the cast/bandage on. The pinky in question (left hand) is not even one that’s covered and looks fine.
The STAR is total $hit.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
If they could make Lt Dan’s legs disappear in 1994 they can make Sam Witwicky’s* fingers reappear in 2008.
*How come no one has made a bigger deal out of that name.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
i probably shouldn’t say this but… ha…
wouldn’t it be hilarious if after he gets it amputated, he starts
playing deformed bad ass in mafia movies, or westerns in the style
of rooster cogburn?
seriously, i could picture it- guy with fucked up face and hand,
warning the young and spunky protagonist not to fuck with the
mafia, and with sharp violin note playing as the camera focuses in
on shia’s deformed digits?
does anyone else get what i’m saying?
August 6th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Uh… don’t film close-ups of that hand!? And when he’s running, just tell him to make fists. I used to make movies in college and crap like this (ok, maybe not as bad) happened all the time; things are always going wrong that you have to work around. With a little creativity (I know that’s hard for a big-budget studio movie), this should be a piece of cake to work around if he has to lose the finger.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Story is false…
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b22552_no_amputation_shia_labeouf.html
August 6th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
@Dark Donnie
thanx for he site…did not have a doubt in my mind that the story was false….U can even see in the picture… that he has a cast around his hand and not the pinky.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Who cares?
August 6th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
How do you people find this funny? Honestly, it wasn’t his fault, nor had he been drinking, WTF is wrong with you people.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Exactly. How can you not feel sorry for Shia who got his hand mangled? I don’t really like him much either, but for goodness sake don’t kick someone when their down. Makes you look pathetic.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
losing any part of your body is bad because your so use to seeing yaself as a whole.even if its a tip of a finger..you still feel a lil thrown off so,i hope they can save it.even thought we have 10 digits,i’d still hate to have one missing.it’s a psycological kick in the nuts to..but i do agree with what someone said.it’s just a finger.couldnt they c.g.i it back in or put a prostetic on?its not like his whole hand got cut off.thats an easy fix.just too bad folks are gona be paying more attention to his hands during the movie instead of the actual film.i for one liked transformers and i cant wait to see the sequal…and,i’m not ashamed to admit,i think mike bay is a good director and makes good action films.but thats just me.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:33 am
This is not true!
http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b22552_no_amputation_shia_labeouf.html
August 7th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Hmmm id just replace him with some other young actor, i dunno, Jamie Bell maybe ? One kid is as good as another and people go to see the transformers more so than the kid. Im sure they will just add it into the story somehow after all if a coupple of giant hunks of metal were after you chances are you would get some type of injury.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:50 am
pues que los transformers le den un dedo o mano cybertronetica,
al fin y al cabo así sucedió en los cartoons cuando crearon trajes transformables para humanos.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Some folk’ll never lose a toe, but then again some folk’ll…
Like Cletus the slack jawed yokel.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Shia The Beef was found not to be at fault for the accident, but he was still busted for DUI. He was drinking and driving - it sucks that he was injured, but while he wasn’t technically at fault, if you’re going to drive drunk you have to be ready to face the consequences.
He’s lucky he wasn’t hurt worse, and he’s lucky he didn’t cause an accident and injure or kill someone else.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am
FUN FACT: Something happened to Harrison Ford’s hand during the filming of “Temple of Doom.” Somewhere during the mine chase scene, he has a bandage around his hand. No explanation. At the very end when he’s walking back into town with all the kids, he’s got a fully white cast around his wrist.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Is this the end of Shia LeBeouf’s movie career? After all, he is no James Doohan. I hope so.
As for kicking a guy when he is down, he was drunk and he got into a car accident. I am supposed to feel sorry for this guy now? I don’t think so. This guy is going to the special place after death where they put child molesters and people who talk at the movies.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Even though I think Shia is a complete douchebag I feel sorry for him for might having to lose his finger. At the peak of his career and he loses a finger. His career would basically be over if his finger was gone.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:20 am
At least it’s just a finger and not something important.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:58 am
okay okay at least we know this is TOTALLY FALSE.
@Dark Donnie
Thanks for the link. For all of you who didn’t see it up there its this:
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b22552_no_amputation_shia_labeouf.html
August 7th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
there making a big fucking deal out of nothing. who the fuck cares about his pinky. what does the movie have to do with the pinky, nothing and not only that. shiloh is one of the many things that makes this movie blow. the first one sucked by the way. yeah i said it. go back to 90’s technology where things looked real and not so fucking fake. transformers suk balls.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
STAR is a f*ckin’ tabloid, people… Anyone who writes an article based on information given by this magazine (or any other tabloids) is a f*ckin’ moron. And needs to be shot.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
HAVE HIM WEAR GLOVES
August 7th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I hope Megan Fox is ok.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Can’t they just CGI in a finger?? They made Lt. Dan’s legs disapear in Forest Gump surely they can add a finger!!
August 7th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
From what I read he was not at fault the other driver was. FYI.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
charles Says:
August 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Man I like Shia a lot. But man he screwed himself big time. I can’t believe he would do something so stupid. I’m 22 years old and have never had a drink of beer. Beer taste like shit.
—
Obviously you suck. How do you know beer tastes like shit if you have never had a drink of it in your life?
August 8th, 2008 at 11:23 am
i am a huge shia fan and love him, but he was driving drunk and hes lucky that hes getting a 2nd chance at life where as he could have ended his life or more importantly an innocent civilians. but no, he did not and is not going to lose any of his fingers so all of you need to chill out.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:42 am
That story is completly fake….its not true at all
do a little more research and you will know that he
is not getting his finger amputated…its a completly ‘fabricated story’
August 12th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Good news that he won’t lose a finger. As for the accident itself, had he not been over the limit the accident may have been avoidable as his reaction time would have been quicker. So he may not have caused the accident but he didn’t help himself to avoid it either. Oh and personally, I’m a big fan of the transformer movie and can’t wait to see the sequel.