John Cusack has signed for the movie ‘2012,’ by blockbuster director Roland Emmerich (’10,000 BC’ and ‘The Day After Tomorrow’). The Columbia Pictures production will be one of the 2009’s summer box office contenders and revolves around the Mayan’s calendar, which ends in 2012. After this, a series of natural disasters develop, threatening human existence.

Although the movie is set to shoot in Los Angeles this July, nothing is for certain with the actors’ strike just around the corner. Harald Kloser, more famous as a composer, co-wrote the script with Emmerich. They also wrote ‘10,000 BC’ together. And we all know how that turned out.

Here are some new ‘War, Inc.’ shots, the $10 million anti war movie with John Cusack. The ‘politically incorrect feature’ was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month and will see a limited release May 23.

If you saw the ‘War, Inc.’ trailer, you will already know John Cusack isn’t looking for just entertainment with his new anti-war movie. Cusack put his anger about the Iraq war into a political satire. With its $10 million budget, he hopes this ‘comedy’ will have different effect than all the documentaries on the same subject.

“I think the movie should be kind of offensive. I’m shocked at how much good reaction we’re getting,” John Cusack said. “Sometimes with a serious, somber movie, even though they’re great and well intentioned, it just doesn’t allow you to be outraged because you just get depressed.“

He hopes this project will cause some reaction, because of its different political incorrect nature. “I don’t think we even went far enough,” Cusack said.

Will his effort spark more controversy than the documentaries in recent years? ‘War, Inc.’ will hit the theaters May 23.