Shia LaBeouf will take on the lead role in the upcoming crime thriller God of the Rodeo from writer-director Rosalind Ross. The film is produced by Giannina Scott under her banner Cara Films, alongside Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss of Scott Free Films. The film draws its narrative from journalist Daniel Bergner's reporting in one of the American South's most notorious prisons.

Set in 1967 at Louisiana's Angola Prison, God of the Rodeo follows Buckkey, an inmate on life imprisonment who discovers a potential path to redemption through an unexpected avenue: the prison's inaugural inmate rodeo. When Buckkey prepares for what he hopes will be a moment of glory, alongside his fellow prisoners, they come to realise that the rodeo is merely a gladiatorial spectacle. In other words, a harsh battle for survival to satisfy the public's appetite for violence and reinforce the warden's inflated sense of power.

LaBeouf recently appeared in filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, alongside a cast that includes Adam Driver, Dustin Hoffman, and Aubrey Plaza. One of LaBeouf's upcoming films is Salvable, where he portrays an ageing boxer struggling to break free from his small-town existence while dealing with a strained relationship with a teenage daughter. The actor also has Henry Johnson, marking David Mamet's return to feature film directing in over a decade. Based on Mamet's stage play from 2024, the film brings back the original cast, including LaBeouf, Chris Bauer, Dominic Hoffman, and Evan Jonigkeit.