Amanda Peet won the female lead role in much anticipated and talked about Roland Emmerich’s epic disaster project “2012.”

Peet is joining a very impressive ensemble cast led by John Cusack that includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt.

“2012″ pivots on a global cataclysm and the more than heroic effort of the survivors. Peet is playing Cusack’s ex-wife, recently married to a affluent man. Cusack plays a divorced father attempting to become a writer while working as a limo driver.

If the actor’s strike doesn’t materialize, the epic movie starts shooting in July. The release date for “2012″ is July 10, 2009.