25 Apr 2011

Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf is spotted posing for a picture with some extras on the set of his new film The Wettest County in the World earlier this month in Gay, Georgia.

Also starring Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman, the film centers on a family of Depression-era bootleggers in Franklin County, Virgina. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Matt Bondurant. Here's what Booklist had to say about the novel:

"This family saga follows the Bondurants, bootlegging brothers runnin' stills, runnin' loads, and runnin' from the law in Depression-era Virginia. The book is mainly narrated through the experience of the youngest Bondurant, Jack (in truth, a grandfather of the author), and his family's moonshine enterprise supplies the action in a plot that evokes the culture of distilling and distributing white lightning. To optimistic Jack, bootlegging is both a bond to his older brothers, Forrest and Howard, and a means to make cash to impress a girl. Forrest, by contrast, is taciturn and suspicious: the world is violent, and he meets it on that ground. Tender of the stills and imbiber from same, burly Howard is always ready to take on the Bondurants' enemies, corrupt law officers. Wending through this conflict in flash-forward mode is novelist Sherwood Anderson, who plumbs the Bondurant story a few years after the brothers' climactic confrontation with the county sheriff. Descriptively gritty and emotionally resonant, novelist Bondurant dramatically projects the poverty and danger at the heart of the old-time bootlegging life."

*4 Shia LaBeouf pictures total in the gallery:

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