It seems Shia Labeouf might soon be taking a much-deserved break from doing terrible movies.  According to the LA Times, LaBeouf and Tom “Captain Handsome” Hardy are both attached to The Wettest County in the World, a John Hillcoat project based on a super-violent book about 1920s bootleggers.  Hillcoat’s BFF Nick Cave will be adapting. (side note: if Nick Cave and Joss Whedon had a headbutting contest, who’d win?)

Cave will be adapting Matt Bondurant’s “novel based on a true story” about Bondurant’s own family history, which mentions his great uncle surviving having his throat slit by robbers, and a magazine writer who shows up to write about the place and finds at the local hospital a man with “legs meticulously shattered from ankle to hip” and another “castrated, with the by-products of the deed deposited in a jar of moonshine.”

Uh… yes, please.

TOM HARDY: My goodness!  The robbers castrated you?
SHIA LABEOUF:  Sure did.  Cut off mah pinkie too.

Leslie Mann (Apatow’s wife) went on Ellen the other day to promote 17 Again and told a story about how her co-star Zac Efron agreed to call her daughter Maude (her and her sister were the best part of Knocked Up) on her 10th birthday.  It’s as annoying as you might imagine a group of 10-year-old girls to be (God I hope I don’t have daughters), but she redeems herself seconds later when she knocks some little dude on his ass for no reason.  What’s he doing at a party with a bunch of screaming girls anyway? I can’t decide if he’s a little pimp or an Efron in training.  Depends on whether his last name has a hyphen, I think.

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In case you were curious why he was killing all those foreigners (as if it matters), "In Thailand, a group of Christian aid workers recruit John Rambo to guide them up the Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the Karen tribe of neighboring Burma (aka Myanmar). When the missionaries fail to return, Rambo is persuaded to take a group of mercenaries back into the war-torn border region to find them. What follows is a descent into hell on earth."
 
It appears that Stallone has turned to graphic violence in order to keep Rambo relevant.  A wise strategy, in my opinion.  Though when one hears of an R-rated trailer set in Thailand, one naturally expects ping pong ball shooting and ladyboys.  It's like they want us to think Rambo is some kind of fag or something.