Comments on: Shia LaBeouf to Star in John Grisham’s The Associate http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/12/02/shia-labeouf-to-star-in-john-grishams-the-associate/ Blog and Podcast Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:51:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: clint http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/12/02/shia-labeouf-to-star-in-john-grishams-the-associate/comment-page-1/#comment-500911 clint Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:54:22 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=13262#comment-500911 im excited for this, shia seemed way more mature in eagle eye than any role i've seen him in. im excited for this, shia seemed way more mature in eagle eye than any role i’ve seen him in.

]]> By: Joel http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/12/02/shia-labeouf-to-star-in-john-grishams-the-associate/comment-page-1/#comment-500637 Joel Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:34:15 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=13262#comment-500637 For once, couldn't Hollywood give us a movie about a young lawyer who ISN'T a hotshot? Maybe someone who isn't big on lawyering, someone who really just wants to settle down, open a pizza joint and take his son to t-ball games. But his parents' ambitions pushed him through law school all the way to the top, and he's looking back saying to himself, "This isn't what I wanted. This isn't it at all." That's the kind of lawyer movie I want to see. For once, couldn’t Hollywood give us a movie about a young lawyer who ISN’T a hotshot? Maybe someone who isn’t big on lawyering, someone who really just wants to settle down, open a pizza joint and take his son to t-ball games. But his parents’ ambitions pushed him through law school all the way to the top, and he’s looking back saying to himself, “This isn’t what I wanted. This isn’t it at all.” That’s the kind of lawyer movie I want to see.

]]> By: Ryan M. http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/12/02/shia-labeouf-to-star-in-john-grishams-the-associate/comment-page-1/#comment-500601 Ryan M. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:56:07 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=13262#comment-500601 I think it is sick and horrible that they option things and try to adapt them w/o the source material present (like they did with Wanted)....I don't get it. Isn't the main point of an adaptation (by a corporate bastard) to cash in on a fanbase that is already there? Aren't there some finished books (inb4 the same go to novelists like King, Grisham, and Clancy) that still go w/o ownership by a studio? Aren't there original screenplays by the pros that just simply aren't being read? A Are my questions all futile because there isn't any originality or common sense in Hollywood? I think it is sick and horrible that they option things and try to adapt them w/o the source material present (like they did with Wanted)….I don’t get it.

Isn’t the main point of an adaptation (by a corporate bastard) to cash in on a fanbase that is already there? Aren’t there some finished books (inb4 the same go to novelists like King, Grisham, and Clancy) that still go w/o ownership by a studio? Aren’t there original screenplays by the pros that just simply aren’t being read? A

Are my questions all futile because there isn’t any originality or common sense in Hollywood?

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