John Cusack on His Upcoming Projects: “I’m shooting this film called ‘The Martian Child’ with myself and my sister Joan. Amanda Peet’s in it and Oliver Platt and Sophie Okonedo. I’m making it with the director who I made ‘Max’ with. It’s about a guy who adopts a kid with kind of special needs. It’s a really nice story.”
Cusack’s also shooting a film in Bulgaria. “I’m making a film with Morgan Freeman called ‘The Contract’ with Bruce Beresford. Kind of a hostage drama kind of thing. It sort of switches back and forth but Morgan plays a bad guy, which is pretty interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that so I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to Bulgaria.’ He’s one of those actors, kind of like Christopher Plummer or Stockard Channing or Diane [Lane] or any of those people where if somebody said, ‘Come on in and they’re going to read the phone book from L to M,’ I would just listen because they are so interesting to watch - those actors.”
On His Edgar Casey Project and His Interest in the Paranormal: “I have an interest in that sort of thing. I’m very interested in that and then my father and I started working on a screenplay before he passed away, so I have a connection with my father, too. I just think the world is fascinating. I’m interested in what you can learn from it.“
John Cusack’s Take on the Paranormal: “…I’ve had experiences where I’m pretty sure there’s more going on than [what’s on the surface]. Instincts and intuition things and things where people have known stuff they’re not supposed to know. You wake up and go, ‘Something’s up with somebody,’ and it’s happened. Just little connections to people where you’re hardwired in ways you don’t really know about or aren’t conscious of.
I’ve just studied that stuff for a while and I think he’s a fascinating creature. Houdini and all these people tried to debunk him and nobody could, so he definitely had a connection to this other world, whatever that is, that is kind of irrefutable. He was studied and there’s 40 books written about him and there’s a whole institute in Virginia Beach. He’s a fascinating figure. Spencer Tracy wanted to do a movie about him for a long time. They’ve been trying to do a movie about him for a while so I’m going to do that one.”
