The Raven

[BlackLagoon]

Just saw the commercial for this. Looks like it might be worth a trip to the theatre....

The Raven Trailer Official 2011 [HD] - John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve

[Sean]

I'm in.

[Scatter]

Saw the previews and it looked great!!

[Unknown Primate]

Looks good (and original!).  Cusack is a darn fine actor, too!

[Count_Zirock]

Not a big Cusack fan, but maybe the story will make up for it. He just looks too healthy and sober for Poe. This might have been a great role for RDJ about 7 years ago.

[Unknown Primate]

I was thinking the same thing, lol!  Poe was haggard before his time!

[Count_Zirock]

I was thinking the same thing, lol!  Poe was haggard before his time!

Haggard, haunted, and downright sickly.

[zombiehorror]

Looks like the wife is going to take me to see this for my B-day since it comes out the day before.  I just don't see Edgar Allan Poe in Cusack nor do I see Poe as some kind of Sherlock Holmes/007 private investigator.

[monsterphile]

It's a piece of fiction based on a historic person and I'm completely fine with that.  Poe did look sickly and was never involved in investigating a series of murders based on his stories.  Then again, Abraham Lincoln never hunted vampires...publicly.  Previous "adaptations" of Poe's stories by the likes of Roger Corman have been far from the original stories (to say the least) and some of them were great fun movies.  I love Cusack in so many of his movies.  He just comes across as...natural. 

This film is being directed by James McTeigue.  I thought he did a fine job with V FOR VENDETTA which I loved (despite Alan Moore's lamentations).  I look forward to seeing this film.

By the way, fans of Cusack, if you haven't seen IDENTITY, watch it.  It's one of those blow your mind movies.


Rob

[zombiehorror]

It's a piece of fiction based on a historic person and I'm completely fine with that.  Poe did look sickly and was never involved in investigating a series of murders based on his stories.  Then again, Abraham Lincoln never hunted vampires...publicly.  Previous "adaptations" of Poe's stories by the likes of Roger Corman have been far from the original stories (to say the least) and some of them were great fun movies.  I love Cusack in so many of his movies.  He just comes across as...natural. 

Rob

But Lincoln still looks more natural hunting and killing supernatural critters than Edgar Allan Poe looks as a detective/action star; At least the guy playing Lincoln looks like Lincoln, Cusack could have used some make up and it really would have completed the illusion!

[Fester]

Poe was indirectly involved in a murder mystery.

On July 28, 1841, Mary Rogers a young woman working in a New York City cigar store was found floating in the Hudson river.  The case was sensationalized in the New York papers. And the murder was never satisfactorily solved.
Poe based his detective story, The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842) on the murder.

Not sure Poe ever wore a goatee like Cusack does . . .

[Count_Zirock]

Not sure Poe ever wore a goatee like Cusack does . . .

Even though he flunked out, as a former West Pointer, Poe wore a moustache because it was the trend amongst military officers of the period.

[The Creeper]

I seen this trailer too and  I am wanting to see this.  Always liked John Cusack and Poe of course!

[Count_Zirock]

Cusack could have used some make up and it really would have completed the illusion!

Cusack shares Poe's high forehead, and that's about it. Cusack is too tall for Poe, and too darn healthy-looking. He should've borrowed some clown-white and dark eyeshadow from Johnny Depp! Also, yes, the goatee is inaccurate. Poe wore a moustache because, even though he was tossed out of West Point for drunkeness, he still went there and moustaches were big in the military back then. That's why pacifists like the Amish and Quakers grow beards, but not moustaches.

[BaronLatos35]

I like Cusack and I'm ready to see this.

I'm glad they are making horror movies with a gothic flair these days.