THE RAVEN Poster

A new movie poster has just been released for the upcoming period thriller The Raven. Originally set for March 9th opposite John Carter, it'll now open in the final weekend before the official Summer season starts – April 27th, 2012. The poster the first to feature star John Cusack, who plays the famed American author of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe. Here's the synopsis for the film:

In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John 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. When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) 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.

Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin), The Raven also stars Luke Evans (Immortals), Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster).