It's the end of the world as he knows it, and Woody Harrelson feels just fine, the veteran actor laughed, revealing exclusively to MTV News that he has a starring role in Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic "2012," which he will begin shooting shortly in Vancouver.
"I don't know why they thought of me," Harrelson chuckled. "But I like the idea."
It's an idea that we have thanks to the Mayans, who predicted the world would end on December 21, 2012, taking with it everything we know and love up to and including time itself. That means earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, the end of days. Believe it, said Harrelson - even if in no one else does, confessing that his character is a sort of modern version of the Greek Cassandra, a prophet nobody believes. Read More...
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Where do you go after you've destroyed the world not once, but three times, most recently with "The Day After Tomorrow"? How about to thousands of days before yesterday? That's where director Roland Emmerich is heading with "10000 B.C.," a prehistoric epic about the travels of a 21-year-old hunter (Steven Strait) that castmember Cliff Curtis told MTV News will be as mammoth as the beasts he hunts.
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