Shia LaBeouf Left Pinky Finger Amputation

Star magazine is reporting that Shia LaBeouf may have his left pinky finger amputated. Star quotes a source who says:

"Shia called producers yesterday and told them," the source on the set in Alamogordo, N.M. says. "It’s really thrown the movie into turmoil."

If you look closely at Shia’s finger in the picture of his left pinky, it doesn’t appear to have been injured at all, so Star’s story doesn’t seem believable at all. Good thing we have pictures.

The good news is Shia probably isn’t going to lose his pinky. There is some bad news however.

In May George Lucas told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival that he already had an idea for Indiana Jones V, and that it centered, not on Dr. Henry Jones, but on his son, Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf. Recently Lucas was asked by MTV News whether he still considered Mutt Williams a strong enough character to drive an Indiana Jones film. Lucas said that Indy just isn’t Indy without Indy, to put it another way, No. Lucas added:

“Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones. If it was Mutt Williams it would be ‘Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis’ or something.”

Looks like Shia won’t be taking over for Harrison Ford after all.

UPDATE:

LaBeouf publicist Melissa Kates responded to Star’s amputation claim saying:

"It’s a completely fabricated story."

Amen to that.