Amanda Peet is the latest to join Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic drama 2012. She joins fellow actors, John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt. The movie is set to film starting in July, with a release date of July 10th, 2009.
"2012" revolves around a global cataclysm and the heroic struggle of the survivors. Peet is playing Cusack's ex-wife, newly married to a wealthy man. Cusack plays a divorced father trying to become a writer while holding a job as a limo driver.