John Cusack's career has been hampered, but his agent has been working pretty hard and the last two days the actor signed up for Stephen King's Cell' and financial world drama Due Process.
Additionally, Cusack puts his name on another movie, Airspace, an aerial action-thriller that has Roger Avary attached to direct.
Pulp Fiction screenwriter Avary was the one who really slowly reviving his career after he had been sentenced to a year behind bars for a 2009 vehicular manslaughter.
Briana Hartman (Brother's Keeper) wrote the screenplay based on a story by Michael B. Chait. Avary is already doing a rewrite on the script described as a Duel style in which Cusack's going to star as ‘a work-absorbed charter pilot flying home to his family who must escape a sudden attack by a heavily armed MiG fighter jet after finding a mysterious briefcase in his plane.
Besides, Chait is a commercials director with some experience of filming planes, so here's his Airspace concept teaser:
A private charter pilot is caught in a desperate game of cat & mouse in this simultaneously vast & claustrophobic aerial action thriller from director Michael B. Chait. During a solo flight, work absorbed pilot Steve Merritt's radio and navigation abruptly stop working and he is attacked by an intimidating fighter jet! He is trapped in the sky within the confines of his tiny cockpit with no weapons or protection, and no chance of help or rescue. As his plane is ripped steadily apart, and death looms ever closer, Steve must uncover why the jet is after him, survive the deadly barrage of bullets and mind games, and get home. With all the action taking place within the confines of Steve's cockpit, surrounded by an aerial showdown unlike anything you've seen before, AIRSPACE will be the flight of your life!
And, here's one of his plane ads.
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Source: Variety
