*Emmmerich is in his office, Woody Harrelson is sat opposite him*
Emerich: Hey Woody did you read my script for 2012?
Harrelson: I did.
Emerich: Well what do ya think?
Harrelson: Well....it's pretty much every disaster film ever made, only you know cheesier.
Emmerich: So you wouldn't want to be in it?
Harrelson: Sorry.
Emmerich: Not even for the right sum.
Harrelson: I don't need money.
Emmerich: What if I gave you the lead role. You're this struggling writer....
Harrelson: Yes I read the script, look I've gotta go.
Emmerich: Sure he's unreliable, but his hearts in the right place. His wife may be about to divorce him and his kid think his camping trips are lame, but when he saves them from the apocalypse they'll start to realise he's not so bad after all.
Harrelson: I'll see you later.
*Woody goes to leave*
Emmerich: WAIT! What if I write this character, he's strange, a real whack job.
*Woody stops and turns*
Harrelson: I'm listening.
Emmerich: He's real eccentric, a paranoid pot head, every stereotype Woodstock throwback you've ever seen
*Woody becomes wide eyed*
Harrelson: Now you're talking!
Emmerich: So you'll do it?
Harrelson: There are some conditions?
Emerich: Oh?
Harrelson: Can I play him so eccentric and offbeat,that he borderlines on creepy, you know, just like all my characters?
Emmerich: I guess.....Anything else?
Harrelson:Can I bring my own wig?
Emmerich: Sure?
Harrelson: Pay dirt!
*Harrelson leaves, giddy and grinning from ear to ear thinking of the possibilities*
*Emmerich's secretary enters the room*
Secretary: So did he take the job
Emmerich: Well, sort of, we still need a leading man.
Secretary: Well, no offense Roland, no high profile actors are going to take this role.
Emmerich: And whys that?
Secretary: Well because they're inevitably going to take a back seat to your special effects...*The secretary looks at the script...and these characters....they're so cardboard and cliche, no self respecting actor will take this?!
Emmerich: Dammit, you're right. We need someone with at least a little star power, someone who's stars fallen in recent years someone who has no choice but to take these roles.
*Emmerich stops and looks around the room, deep in thought, until he sees a pile of old movie promotional posters in the corner of the room, suddenly his eyes glimmer*
Emmerich: Get me John Cusack!
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