John Cusack stars as Edgar Allen Poe in the thriller The Raven. Directed by James McTeigue, the R-rated drama will open in theaters on April 27, 2012.
In addition to John Cusack, The Raven features Alice Eve as Emily Hamilton, Luke Evans as Detective Emmett Fields, Brendan Gleeson as Captain Hamilton, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen as John Contrell. Jimmy Yuill plays Captain Elderidge, Sam Hazeldine is Ivan, and Michael Shannon plays Dr Morgan.
Official Synopsis: In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allen 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.
