First Look at The Raven with John Cusack as Poe
June 26th 2011 14:55
John Cusack stars in Relativity Media's upcoming release The Raven. Photo Credit: Larry Horricks
Directed by James McTeigue, John Cusack is far from the hot tub in this first look picture of the movie about Edgar Allen Poe.
In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allen Poe (Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. James McTeigue is know for directing V for Vendetta, the film also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper—part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe. But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story.
Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe’s writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author’s help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer’s next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it’s too late.
See John Cusack as the tormented Edgar Allen Poe opening in theaters March 9, 2012.
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