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Exclusive: John Cusack Knows Jack (*groan*)

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (28)

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What the hell has happened to John Cusack, anyway? I miss the awesome ’80s/’90s Cusack. I think his lack of success with Iraq War movies (Grace is Gone, which was fantastic, and War, Inc, which was a mess) has hurled him back into bad studio projects. Look no further than tomorrow’s 2012 and the upcoming Steve Pink comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine, which — despite a killer cast that also includes Chevy Chase, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, and Crispin Glover — looked terrible, based on the teaser trailer (a full-length trailer is due out imminently).

The guy needs to get back to his good romantic comedy roots and stay away from political movies and sentimental kid movies (Martian Child). According to our source, The Hollywood Cog, the next project on his plate is neither. It’s a $20 million indie thriller, which Cusack has had mixed success with. Cusack is attached now to Jack, about a doctor who falls for a accident victim with memory loss, unaware that the victim is actually a killer, a role that certainly fits into Cusack’s Grosse Point Blank identity.

Joseph Rubin will direct based on a David Venable script. Venable hasn’t done anything since the 1993 dud, Fortress; and Rubin (Sleeping with the Enemy) has been basically unheard from since his 2004 Julianne Moore flop, The Forgotten. Which is to say: Cusack is in good company, among filmmakers who haven’t made a memorable movie in years.







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Comments

I don't care. I love him. I can forgive him jut about anything. Besides, I don't even watch his recent movies. I just curl up in bed with Floyd Dobbler and Martin Blank and we have a fine old time.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 12, 2009 11:41 AM

Floyd Dobbler? Floyd? How can you proclaim your love and then call him Floyd? I had an uncle named Floyd. He was a pervert. He's dead now. But you might have ruined Cusack for me with that slip. I'll have to think on it.

Posted by: dawn at November 12, 2009 11:58 AM

Does he look a little toooo Botoxed up there? He has plastic man face, instead weathered sexy face.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 12, 2009 12:04 PM

I had an uncle named Floyd. He was a pervert. He's dead now.

Dawn just cracked my ass up.

Posted by: Julie at November 12, 2009 12:08 PM

I didn't get his name Bitch! I just used him to satisfy my needs and sent him home.

Kidding! Sort of.

It's early for me, I am still working on coffee #1. I made an error, I apologize, I was wrong, please forgive me. I was thinking Lloyd. Really I was. Pink Floyd is on in the background, it poisoned my mind.

K? We good?

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 12, 2009 12:09 PM

John Cusack? He was the one that had the sexamachange, right?

Posted by: admin at November 12, 2009 12:11 PM

That picture makes him look like Lord Voldemort. Don't like, don't want.

Posted by: TylerDFC at November 12, 2009 12:14 PM

John Cusack is an actor who, very much like Ewan McGregor, is always good no matter how bad the movie is in which he stars. 1408 was pretty much only decent because it was basically a one-man show for John Cusack. And even after trying and failing to watch War, Inc. all the way through (that was BRUTAL), I still loved John Cusack. McGregor had Star Wars and Angels & Demons, Cusack had War, Inc. and now, 2012.

I still love 'em to death. If Obama couldn't disown his racist grandmother, I don't have to disown John Cusack.

Posted by: Christian H. at November 12, 2009 12:16 PM

We're good, we're good, I just hate that name with a passion I reserve for silverfish and cockroaches.

Posted by: dawn at November 12, 2009 12:37 PM

I have an Uncle Floyd too, not dead, not a pervert, but just plain gross. Like fart at the family dinner table kind of gross. I feel such solidarity right now. The whole "Floyd" associations made it really hard to like Jason Sudeikis when he played a Floyd on 30 Rock, even though I really like him. The name is tainted.

Posted by: katy at November 12, 2009 1:04 PM

Dawn:
Yeah, no good ever came from a Floyd. Go ahead, prove me wrong!

PS: I was using 'BITCH!' in the Chappelian sense. As in "Get yo' clothes off BITCH!" Not a reflection on you)

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 12, 2009 1:05 PM

Lindsey with an E- Well, I didn't take offense because I AM a bitch. Even my momma says so. I just assumed you knew me from a past life or something.

Katy-I'm feeling your Floyd pain. Maybe just bestowing the name Floyd ensures that the child will grow into a nasty human being.

Posted by: dawn at November 12, 2009 1:18 PM

Let's just hope all Floyds don't really grow up bad. My friend has a 5-year old son named Floyd.

Posted by: MM at November 12, 2009 1:37 PM

Grosse Point Blank is one of the coolest fucking movies I have ever seen, and John Cusack made 1408 the movie it was supposed to be (awesome). Con Air? 2012? Whatever. The dude has a way of making shit movies into, well, decently smelling shit movies.

Posted by: danny at November 12, 2009 1:39 PM

In defense of Floyds everywhere:

I'll give you Floyd Dobbler because I always hear it as "Knob Gobbler", and Floyd just sounds stupid if you say it 12 times in row, but come on -
SCTV's Count Floyd? Sure he got overplayed, but he was hilarious!
Floyd the bass player on The Muppet Show? - was there ever anyone cooler?
Pink Floyd? - depressing sure, but everyone lights the Bic and sings along to that shit.sings along.
Floyd the Barber on the Andy Griffith show? He's a dipshit, but he wouldn't hurt a fly!

Sorry a few bad Floyds ruined it for you. But there's still a few good ones left out there!

Posted by: Odnon at November 12, 2009 1:41 PM

My friend has a 5-year old son named Floyd.

Posted by: MM at November 12, 2009 1:37 PM

Sorry, but he will either be a deviant or a Douche. There is just no getting around it.
Hey, I don't make the rules, they are what they are.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 12, 2009 2:19 PM

Pink Floyd is not a person, and as much as 'The Wall' was the soundtrack to my youth (in the 90's) it no more props up the name 'Floyd' than Lynrd Skynrd makes 'Leonard' cool. Unless you are Leonard Cohen. Then you are all kinds of cool.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 12, 2009 2:23 PM

LwaE- yeah, I was reaching with the Pink Floyd thing.
Most Floyds are dicks.
The name even sounds like a euphemism for a flaccid weiner.
Floyd.

Posted by: Odnon at November 12, 2009 2:45 PM

But I still stand by Floyd the Bass player from the Muppets.

Posted by: Odnon at November 12, 2009 2:46 PM

I'll grant that Floyd the Bass Player was very very cool, but none of your Floyds are real, Odnon, and therefore your argument is rejected. Are you one of those people who has to defend everyone or do you just like to argue? Have a good day though.

Posted by: dawn at November 12, 2009 2:59 PM

dawn -

I was just trying to find examples of Floyds who weren't all that bad. And because my examples were all fictional, it might just reinforce the original assertion made about Floyds..

Besides - Floyd the Barber? You thought I was serious?
Or do you just like to make ad hominem attacks?

Posted by: Odnon at November 12, 2009 3:37 PM

Yeah, I did a Google search of 'Floyd' before I made my assertion that no good ever came of one. I was on reasonably firm ground there.

I'm just playin' with you Odnon. You know I would never hate on a fellow member of S.C.H.M.E.E.B.S!
BFFL!

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 12, 2009 3:47 PM

I know it Lindsey! S.C.H.M.E.E.B.S forever!

Posted by: Odnon at November 12, 2009 3:51 PM

I gotta say that for an early morning (for me) typo, the whole Floyd/Lloyd thing panned out pretty well.
It just goes to show, when you get lemons, make lemonade.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at November 12, 2009 4:25 PM

There's also Floyd the bartender form "The Shining"... that guy wasn't right either.

Posted by: Beckster "Tri-Tip Goddess" at November 12, 2009 6:53 PM

Ah shit, his name was Lloyd, not Floyd.

But Lloyds are kinda fucked up too...

Posted by: Beckster "Tri-Tip Goddess" at November 12, 2009 6:55 PM

I think EW proposed this at least a few years back, but I thought it was a pretty fun idea: Grosse Pointe Blank sequel. You can set it at the 20th or 25th high school reunion, where Jeremy Piven's character has run afoul of some unsavory fellows, thus forcing Martin Blank to protect him with his old hitman skills, gone unused since the 10th anniversary.

I'm sure y'all consider the idea blasphemous or whatever, but I'd rather see that given a chance than the majority of the Cusack vehicles over the last ten years.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at November 12, 2009 9:36 PM

John Cusack gives his fans such blue balls. He just won't fucking put out (a good film).

He's barely masturbatory material anymore. What a waste.

Posted by: lawnjart at November 13, 2009 2:44 PM


















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