Shia Labeouf is set to star in the crime thriller ‘God of the Rodeo’.The ‘Transformers’ star, 38, has signed on to lead director Rosalind Ross’ upcoming movie, which will be based on the reports of Daniel Bergner from inside the deadliest prison in the American South.Set in the harsh confines of Louisiana’s Angola Prison in 1967, ‘God of the Rodeo’ follows Buckkey, a hardened inmate who discovers a faint hope of redemption through an unexpected chance - the prison’s first inmate rodeo. As Buckkey and his fellow prisoners train for what may be their final shot at dignity, they come to realise the rodeo is no heroic contest, but a brutal spectacle.Designed to entertain the public and feed the warden’s messianic ambitions, it becomes a punishing battle for survival masked as sport.As well as directing ‘God of the Rodeo’, Ross is set to write the movie’s script.