John Cusack Welcomes the Apocalypse

John Cusack, who last year experienced the high of 1408 is once again picking a number he hopes is lucky. 2012 is the title of a Roland Emmerich apocalypse movie (and who better to guide that kind of thing, really), in which Cusack will star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor. It would be the kind of big budget movie The Cuse normally doesn't do, either because he's in one of his serious, the industry is full of pablum moods or because he's not a big enough box office draw to fill enough seats for a $200 million epic.Unlike previous Roland Emmerich disaster flicks like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, The Hollywood Reporter describes 2012 as centering on a "global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors." See, this one's entirely different. It's actually based on the belief that when the Mayan calendar ends in 2012, we're all S.O.L. In the Eve of Destruction epic, Cusack would play a divorced father and limo driver who also happens to be a writer. That last bit's a little cliché, but whatever. He'd be trying to save his family in 2012, and just for the hell of it, I'd love him to do it in the limo. As for Ejiofor, he'd take care of his mortgage for a few years playing "an idealistic science adviser to the president" who, through the apocalyptic events, also becomes a hero. From the sounds of it, the world doesn't really end in this movie. The turnaround on the project would be pretty quick; filming would ideally begin in July (barring a walk-off by the actors) and Columbia is eyeing a July 10, 2009 release date. That gives the project almost exactly a year from filming to release, and that's a pretty tight schedule for something of this size. And you know what they say: You can't rush genius. Of course, I'm not sure how that applies to Roland Emmerich.

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[Will]

Wait, so there is a studio willing to give Emmerich the green light after 10,000 BC?

Amazing!

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