Shia LaBeouf hired a skywriter to express how sorry he is for plagiarizing the work of writer Daniel Clowes in his shot film "HowardCantour.com".
According to Variety, a company called Worldwide Sky Ads was responsible for the message in the sky. LaBeouf tweeted a photo of the apology on his official Twitter account. The actor also posted another comment about the scandal as well.
"I am not a biter. I'm a writer for myself and others. I steal some plot points & dialogue. I'm only big'n up my brother," LaBeouf wrote, but then deleted.
Clowes has not commented about the apology in the sky, but spoke with BuzzFeed about his reaction to LaBeouf's blatant plagiarism when the news first broke in December.
CLOUD: - vapor floating in the atmosphere - remote servers used to SHARE DATA - to make LESS CLEAR or TRANSPARENT pic.twitter.com/jw9JlEi791
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) January 1, 2014
"The first I ever heard of the film was this morning when someone sent me a link. I've never spoken to or met Mr. LaBeouf," Clowes told BuzzFeed. "I've never even seen one of his films that I can recall - and I was shocked, to say the least, when I saw that he took the script and even many of the visuals from a very personal story I did six or seven years ago and passed it off as his own work. I actually can't imagine what was going through his mind."
Clowes' editor Eric Reynolds released an email statement to BuzzFeed about LaBeouf's original Twitter apology as well.
"His apology is a non-apology, absolving himself of the fact that he actively misled, at best, and lied, at worst, about the genesis of the film," Reynolds wrote. "No one 'assumes' authorship for no reason. He implied authorship in the film credits itself, and has gone even further in interviews. He clearly doesn't get it, and that's disturbing. I'm not sure if it's more disturbing that he plagiarized, or that he could rationalize it enough to think it was OK and that he might actually get away with it."
Reynolds added they are looking into their legal options, but have not filed legal actions against the actor.
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