Shia LaBeouf is quite the curious case. You needn’t look any further than some of the headlines he’s earned over the past few years. Now, the actor and film maker is adding some context to his whole deal via a semi-autobiographical film written by LaBeouf called Honey Kid. Today, we get a glimpse of the intense reality he experienced growing up as a child in Hollywood with the first official trailer.
The film was written by LaBeouf and directed by Alma Har’el and is expected to hit cinemas in November. While obviously taking certain creative liberties, the film is set to be a harrowing and intense dissection of LaBeouf’s journey to becoming a house hold name. LaBeouf stars in the film playing a character based off his own father, a former rodeo clown and felon eager to push his son to success.
As per the trailer, the film will also take inspiration from LaBeouf’s time working on Even Stevens, Holes and Transformers. Not to mention his time being handcuffed in the back of a police patrol car.
The film will take viewers through the baffling dynamic between LaBeouf and his father, with the trailer featuring dialogue between the two that sees the downtrodden father ask, “How do you think it feels to have my son paying me?” to which the child LaBeouf, known as Otis, responds ‘You wouldn’t be here if I didn’t pay you.’
Bloody heavy stuff.
But LaBeouf’s intentions for this film aren’t to garner sympathy from viewers. Speaking to Variety at Sundance, the star explained “It’s strange to fetishize your pain and make a product out of it. And you feel guilty about that. It felt very selfish. This whole thing felt very selfish. I never went into this thinking, ‘Oh let me fucking help people.’ That wasn’t my goal. I was falling apart.”
You can watch the trailer below.
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