Shia LaBeouf and his Eagle Eye/Disturbia director DJ Caruso had long been planning on tackling a big-budget adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn’s graphic novel series Y: The Last Man, but recently LaBeouf dropped out of the potential flick — citing Transformers as the main reason why:

You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder, [and] I don’t know if it’s that big a differential. It seems like he’s the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again… I’m not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around.

[via Wizard Magazine]

LaBeouf would’ve played Yorick Brown in the flick, the last man on an Earth full of females after a virus wipes out everyone with a Y chromosome.  His main companion?  A monkey named Ampersand.

That currently leaves only the inevitable Transformers 3 and the John Grisham adaptation The Associate on LaBeouf’s schedule.  Course, both are pretty big projects.