Add this to the long list of real-world headlines that seem generated by The Onion.

Actor-turned-performance-artist Shia LeBeouf has selected Manchester by the Sea, Lady Bird, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actor Lucas Hedges to play…well, Shia LeBeouf in Honey Boy, an upcoming biopic about…well, Shia LeBeouf (via THR).

Honey Boy was a script on Hollywood’s Black List – a collection of excellent, unproduced screenplays – this year. It was described as “a child actor and his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father attempt to mend their contentious relationship over the course of a decade.”

The script was written by the mysterious Otis Lort (which is an anagram for “List Root” but that’s neither here nor there). LeBeouf revealed in Esquire this past week that he was indeed the mysterious Lort.