Cusack to star in Emmerich’s 2012

Posted on May 21, 2008
Filed Under Actors, Directors

What is it with Roland Emmerich and big budget films? He must have signed a pretty fantastic deal with the big studios about 10 years ago. If you look at his work, starting in 1996, you have: “Independence Day” (1996), “Godzilla” (1998), “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004), “10,000 BC” (2008) and now “2012” (due out summer 2009). Is it me or doesn’t it seem like Roland has first dibs on big budget, epic and most often catastrophic-themed movies?

Dark Horizons reports that John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor are in negotiations to star in Roland Emmerich’s $200 million apocalyptic epic “2012″ for Sony Pictures. Cusack is in talks to play divorced dad, writer and sometime limo driver Jackson Curtis, who goes on a heroic journey to save his family. Ejiofor plays Adrian Helmsley, an idealistic science adviser to the president who also becomes a hero.

The disaster film centers on a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors.

Emmerich is directing a script he penned with Harald Kloser. Shooting begins in Los Angeles this July for release next July.

At first glance it doesn’t ooze with originality but… I always enjoy a popcorn film. Bring it on Roland!

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