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.