Jonah Hill Set to Transform?
This entry was posted on 5/2/2008 4:10 AM and is filed under Casting About,Musings.
So
Jonah Hill, who broke big in
Superbad and recently popped up in
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, trading on the same sort of man-crush riff that he worked into
Evan Almighty, is allegedly set to join
Shia LaBeouf in the sequel to
Transformers, according to an "early negotiations" leak sourced to Nicole Sperling at
Entertainment Weekly. For the moment
Michael Bay is denying casting/character reports, but
that's what you do when something like this breaks, right? Rightly or wrongly, this sentiment is already bubbling to the surface, and I can tell you that
this news, if/when true, will likely prove a jump-the-shark moment for Hill, who needs a reinvention... already, at age 24.
Transformers 2 certainly won't give him an opportunity to do anything different (squint and you can already see him — bewildered, sardonic, chubby, rocking the porkpie hat), and when it does the requisite huge business, the Internet haters will crawl out from behind their computers with pitchforks, and convince their more genteel moviegoer friends to turn on this guy as well.
