Over the weekend, Relativity Media released the brand new trailer for their upcoming film titled, The Raven. The film stars John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Bredan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson Cohen.
Warning: This is not the Edgar Allen Poe we’ve come to know and love — the one who enjoyed staying cooped up inside, reading volumes of books, while smoking an overstuffed pipe. Instead director, James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) gives us an Poe who’s a bit more “involved” in the world.
In the trailer for The Raven Poe transforms into an action, ass-kicking author who’s determined to find the murder who’s taken his art of killing and turned it into reality. It’s an interesting concept, that’s for sure. Judging from the trailer, Poe looks as if he could join Sherlock Holmes on one of his epic adventures. Check out the trailer below and let us know what you think!
Official Synopsis for ‘The Raven’:
In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, “Being John Malkovich”) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, “Immortals”) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (“V for Vendetta”, “Ninja Assassin”), the film also stars Alice Eve (“Sex and the City 2″), Brendan Gleeson (“In Bruges”) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (“Faster”).
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.
This film hits theaters March 9th, 2012.
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