New Poster For 'The Raven' With John Cusack

I love Edgar Allan Poe.  There's no beating any of his richly dramatic and nearly tragic end for many of his short stories.  In particular, his most famous poem "The Raven" has been adapted into the John Cusack movie that has little to do with the particular poem, but a combination of the author's oeuvre.  And so, we now have a new poster for The Raven.

Here's a quick take on the film:

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

Not the most scintillating of plots, but I'm hopeful it'll be something interesting.  If not, I always have Poe's written work to fall back on.

The Raven is directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) who told EW a little bit about the film:

“[The killer] does one like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Pit and Pendulum and works through Poe’s stories in an increasingly gruesome way, whilst at same time kidnapping his fiancé... We have real elements from Poe’s life, in and out of the story. He was a troubled figure and that’s alluded to in the film. Ultimately he becomes one of the characters in his own story.”

The Raven stars John Cusack, Luke Evans, and Alice Eve.  The films release date has been pushed back from March 9th to April 27th.

Comments

[Richard]

John Cusack's usually puts on a good show, i would probably get of my backside and go see this.

"Qoth the raven. . . Nevermore!"