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2012 Television Drama on the Horizon

German-born director Roland Emmerich says a television series is being planned to follow up his new global disaster flick, 2012.

Co-starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Oliver Platt, the science-fiction movie was penned by Emmerich and Harald Kloser. The pair produced the film with Mark Gordon and Larry Franco.

"The idea for a series was just born out of, in a way, like Harald and I and Mark Gordon, who is big in TV, saying, 'Wouldn't it be an incredible TV show like 'Lost?'"

Asked if the 2012 series will follow some of the surviving characters introduced in the movie, Emmerich replied:

"No, no. It would have to be new characters. When you do a spinoff, you don't want to have the same characters."

Emmerich said he will serve as executive producer on the show.

2012 opens in the United States on November 13.

John Cusack Happy Fans Still Love Say Anything

John Cusack says he's happy people still love his classic teen romance Say Anything two decades after he made it.

A 20th anniversary edition DVD version of the movie, co-starring Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Jeremy Piven and Joan Cusack, was released this week.

Cusack told UPI in New York on Thursday:

"I have great fondness for it.  It was a great collaboration with Cameron Crowe and I was really proud of the movie, so it's really nice that people are still remembering it this many years later. I'm always kind of delighted that people still like it. "

Told there were groups of guys marauding around Manhattan this week dressed as his character Lloyd Dobler - complete with his trademark trench coat and boom box - to celebrate the release of the Say Anything DVD, Cusack cringed and quipped, "I thought that was just on Halloween, no?"

The actor will be seen next week playing a nice-guy novelist trying to save his family during a global catastrophe in the film, 2012.