The Raven is the upcoming thriller, or if you prefer, fictional story about “what would happen if a serial killer challenged poet Edgar Allan Poe to solve a series of killings inspired by his own stories.”
The movie will be directed by James McTeigue (best known from titles like V for Vendetta and Ninja Assassin) and looks that John Cusack will have an honor to portray American author Edgar Allen Poe.
The Raven is based on a Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston script and documents the last five days of Poe's life, when a serial killer is running around Baltimore using Poe's stories as the backdrops to his killings.
Poe and a young detective have a ticking clock to outsmart the killer before he kills again.
Director McTeigue previously stated:
“It's sort of ‘Se7en' meets a series of Poe stories. It's set in 1850s Baltimore, and it's about creating Poe's version of 1850s Baltimore, him moving through it. So it has a lot of the Poe stories interwoven into it”
Jeremy Renner and Ewan McGregor had been circling the role, but like we said, John Cusack confirmed his involvement in a project on Twitter saying:
“Send any poe-gold my way as I begin this journey into the abyss.”
Intrepid Principals Trevor Macy and Marc D Evans will produce with FilmNation's Aaron Ryder, who brought The Raven script to Intrepid.John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue’s The Raven
The Raven is the upcoming thriller, or if you prefer, fictional story about “what would happen if a serial killer challenged poet Edgar Allan Poe to solve a series of killings inspired by his own stories.”
The movie will be directed by James McTeigue (best known from titles like V for Vendetta and Ninja Assassin) and looks that John Cusack will have an honor to portray American author Edgar Allen Poe.
The Raven is based on a Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston script and documents the last five days of Poe's life, when a serial killer is running around Baltimore using Poe's stories as the backdrops to his killings.
Poe and a young detective have a ticking clock to outsmart the killer before he kills again.
Director McTeigue previously stated:
“It's sort of ‘Se7en' meets a series of Poe stories. It's set in 1850s Baltimore, and it's about creating Poe's version of 1850s Baltimore, him moving through it. So it has a lot of the Poe stories interwoven into it”
Jeremy Renner and Ewan McGregor had been circling the role, but like we said, John Cusack confirmed his involvement in a project on Twitter saying:
“Send any poe-gold my way as I begin this journey into the abyss.”
Intrepid Principals Trevor Macy and Marc D Evans will produce with FilmNation's Aaron Ryder, who brought The Raven script to Intrepid.
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