International trailer for Cusack’s The Raven
Posted by Glennis Byron on December 02, 2011 in News tagged with Edgar Allan Poe, John Cusack, The Raven, trailer
The international trailer for John Cusack’s gothic thriller, The Raven, has been released. Shorter than the previously released trailer, it’s made up of much the same scenes as the former if a bit more grisly, as Cusack’s Edgar Allan Poe and Luke Evan’s Emmet Fields get caught up in a cat and mouse game with a serial killer.
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This looks awful – but my own ‘imp of the perverse’ tells me I must see it. Perhaps what most surprises me is that this doesn’t appear to have started out as a book. If it isn’t Da Vinci Code-inspired potboilers that copy and paste a different historical figure into each work for the modern day detectives to study, then its books casting famous writers as sleuths. Will this really be the first to feature Poe?
I see it’s by the director of V For Vendetta – the artificially-sweetened Diet Coke adaptation of one of my favourite books. Talking of artificial sweeteners, it looks like Poe’s getting a love interest. I’m guessing she dies, given the ‘unwholesome’ Mr. Poe’s fixation on ‘the death of a beautiful woman’ as ‘the most poetical topic’ in existence. I’d be more surprised if she lived! Second prediction: that the detective in charge of the investigation will prove to be the killer, and that he’ll get to make long-winded speeches in the climax, possibly justifying the killing of ‘Emily’ through reference to Poe’s own works and some pop-Freudianism.