Boombox aficionado John Cusack in talks to play old Brian Wilson, starring in a new Cronenberg movie

After a not-great turn as Edgar Allen Poe in 2012’s The Raven, John Cusack has somehow become a hot Hollywood commodity again. The boombox-holder has landed the starring role in David Cronenberg’s upcoming thriller, Maps To The Stars, which he’ll appear in with Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, and Sarah Gadon. The film, which Cronenberg’s been trying to get made since 2006, is based on a script from Bruce Wagner that somehow involves both ghosts and, as Variety puts it, “an attack on the celebrity-obsessed society in Los Angeles.” Spooky.