The Raven

The Raven

Directed by James McTeigue
Produced by Marc D Evans, Trevor Macy, Aaron Ryder, Scott Levy
Written by Ben Livingston, Hannah Shakespeare
Music by Lucas Vidal
Release date(s) April 27, 2012

The Raven is directed by James McTeigue, produced by Scott Levy, and based on a screenplay by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare. It stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Eve as Emily Hamilton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen as PC Cantrell.

It is a fictionalized of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe's stories.

In this gothic thriller starring John Cusack as the infamous author Edgar Allan Poe who 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 modern detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it's too late.


Cast
Alice Eve as Emily Hamilton,
John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe,
Luke Evans as Inspector Emmett Fields,
Oliver Jackson-Cohen as PC Cantrell,
Brendan Gleeson as Colonel Hamilton,
Kevin McNally,
Sam Hazeldine as Ivan,
Pam Ferris as Mrs. Bradley,
Brendan Coyle as Reagan,
Dave Legeno as Percy,
Ian Virgo

Filming Locations: Belgrade, Serbia

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