John Cusack, Roland Emmerich, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Harald Kloser were in Berlin today to promote their upcoming movie 2012. Though the movie doesn’t open for a few weeks, the friendship tour (as dubbed by Cusack in his recent tweets) has been traveling all over Europe to, well, I guess warn us. Judging from the trailer, Emmerich is going Old Testament on us this time. Emmerich, who directed and produced the Mayan mayhem monster of a movie, co-wrote the script with Kloser (triple threat as producer, screenwriter and composer). He is mixing religious, philosophical and political elements with the good old Deluge. It will be interesting to see this collaboration between Emmerich’s trademark disasters and Cusack’s activist sincerity play out. Cusack appears to be going for shock-therapy after his last two politically motivated movies “Grace is gone” and “War, Inc.” He has taken a lot of flack for voicing his views on the Bush administration, but in contrast to many “celebrities” he was always making a conscious effort to do the right thing by way of his art. It will be interesting to see it translate into a movie of this magnitude. However, he thoughtfully provided some excellent comic relief for 2010 with “Hot Tub Time Machine”. Looks brilliant.
Costarring are Amada Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson. The movie opens November 12th in Germany, if you cannot wait until December 21st 2012.
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