Lately, more and more press is being given to the Mayan calenders that, some feel, predict that the world will end in 2012.

The Mayans knew something, because as it turns out on the winter solstice in the year 2012, for the first time in about 26,000 years, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way galaxy.  So the energy that typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will be altered, for good or ill, on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 p.m., the date when the Calendar’s “Long Count” will mark the end of a 5,126-year era, and perhaps the end of another long cycle of birth and destruction.

So, what’s a guy to do?  [ Roland Emmerich ] decided to make a movie about it and cast John Cusack..  Rock!

[ John Cusack ] has signed on to star in the apocalyptic thriller “2012”, which is starts off with the cataclysmic destruction of mankind, leaving just a few survivors.  This promises to be another Emmerich epic, big-budget, film extravaganza, ala “10,000 BC”, “The Day After Tomorrow”, and “Independence Day”

Shooting will begin in July in Los Angeles, barring a SAG strike.

Cusack, will be first be in the satire “War, Inc.,” which he also wrote and produced. He is currently shooting “Shanghai” for the Weinstein Co.