John Cusack Does Factory Work

John Cusack is set to work on The Factory, a psychological thriller that is automatically going to be better than Awake because it has John Cusack in it. Hollywood Reporter says the cop drama was written by Australian Project Greenlight winner Morgan O’Neill.

Cusack will play an obsessed cop who, with his partner, is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. When his teenage daughter disappears, the cop drops any professional restraint and goes all out to get the killer.

O’Neill wrote “Factory” with Paul Leyden, an Australian actor who starred in “As the World Turns” and “LAX.” Dark Castle picked up the script preemptively a year ago.

The movie is slated to go before cameras in January.