Can you see John Cusack starring in a screwball comedy about a dodgy dictator? The actor clearly can, as he’s signed on for a new film called Dictablanda.
The title translates to **Soft Dictator **and will find Cusack in the lead of what Variety reports will be a comedy of manners about international mayhem.
That’s about it for plot details, though the tagline is apparently, “People don’t die, they get killed.” Which makes it sound a little like misfiring 2008 comedy War, Inc. all over again. Though the producers (including Cusack himself) are probably hoping it’ll make a bit more money.
Alejandro Agresti, last found directing 2006’s Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock time-twisting romance pic The Lake House, is on to make the movie from a script he wrote with Cusack, Kevin Morris and Paul Hipp, who has snagged one of the supporting roles.
Cusack and co are already busy shooting the film in Buenos Aires and Argentina’s Mar de Ajo, with production scheduled to continue through April. There’s now word on a release date, but he has cop thriller The Factory and period drama thriller The Raven waiting to hit cinemas.