Shia LaBeouf Returns to the Screen as a Bad Influence on a Troubled Boxer in ‘Salvable’ Trailer with Toby Kebbell

Shia LaBeouf is returning to the big screen for his third movie in five years.

On Wednesday, March 26, Lionsgate released the trailer for its upcoming boxing film Salvable, which stars Toby Kebbell (Servent) as a struggling boxer in Ireland named Sal, who risks falling back in with LaBeouf’s character Vince, seemingly a former convict intent on bringing Sal back into a criminal lifestyle.

Sal is seen bare-knuckle boxing and struggling to retain his love for the sport in the trailer. LaBeouf’s character Vince seemingly appears after serving a jail sentence related to a robbery and quickly goes about recruiting Sal to help pull off a major heist. Sal, in turn, struggles with his commitment to his sport and his teenage daughter as he ponders what path to take.

An official synopsis for the upcoming film describes Salvable as “an emotional, action-packed film about a prize fighter’s battles both inside and outside the ring.”

“When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the biggest swing of his life to reclaim his hope and his family,” the synopsis reads.

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LaBeouf’s career has been marred by controversy in recent years. Back in 2020, the actor’s ex-girlfriend, singer-songwriter FKA Twigs, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing him of “relentless” sexual, physical and emotional abuse. The lawsuit’s trial date has been pushed back multiple times and is currently set to go to trial on Sept. 29, as Rolling Stone reported in October 2024.

“I hurt that woman,” LaBeouf said on Jon Bernthal’s Real Ones podcast in 2022, without naming Twigs. “And in the process of doing that, I hurt many other people, and many other people before that woman … I was a pleasure-seeking, selfish, self-centered, dishonest, inconsiderate, fearful human being.”

Salvable is only the third movie LaBeouf has appeared in since 2020 when he appeared in the films The Tax Collector and Pieces of a Woman. In 2022, the actor starred as the title character in Padre Pio; he also was originally slated to appear in Olivia Wilde’s 2022 movie Don’t Worry Darling, but left the project early in its development. LaBeouf most recently held a supporting antagonist role in Francis Ford Coppola’s 2024 epic Megalopolis. 

Salvable is in theaters and on demand and digital May 2.