Cusack Tackles Hitler Drama

John Cusack is set to star in Hoffman, for writer/director Menno Meyjes. Cusack said that the film has "the best script I've read since Being John Malkovich". Hoffman focuses on the young Adolf Hitler and how his Jewish art teacher supposedly failed to encourage his nascent artistic talent. This has been interpreted as one possible cause for Hitler's later political, and genocidal, actions. It's unclear at present which role Cusack will be playing. Cusack is currently filming America's Sweethearts with Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Meyjes, the screenwriter of The Siege, is also working on a script adaptation of Lindbergh for Steven Spielberg.