Shia LaBeouf Tweets About Plagiarism Allegations: 'I F*cked Up'
Actor and director Shia LaBeouf fired off a collection of Twitter missives early Tuesday morning, owning up to accusations that his new short film HowardCantour.com plagiarizes Daniel Clowes' 2007 comic Justin M. Damiano. The film was posted online on Monday.
"I f*cked up," LaBeouf wrote at the end of his six-tweet explanation (below).
The allegations surfaced Monday night after Clowes, a veteran graphic novelist, discovered LaBeouf's 11-minute film about fictional film critic Howard Cantour, played by Jim Gaffigan.
Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics, a publisher of comic books and graphic novels, is among those who noticed the film's dialogue and imagery looked and sounded eerily similar Clowes' comic, which is also about a film critic undergoing struggles. But LaBeouf did not credit Clowes or reference Justin M. Damiano in any manner.
On Twitter, Reynolds wrote that LaBeouf "must be delusional" and "WTF was [he] thinking?"
"What he should really do is between he and Clowes," Reynolds told Mashable via email on Tuesday. "But if it were up to me, I'd make him give out nothing but Daniel Clowes books — with apologies — for the holidays."
In his public apology on Twitter, LaBeouf admits Clowes' work served as inspiration for his short film, which is now password protected — though a trailer is still live here.
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