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This is the first trailer for Relativity’s period thriller The Raven. The James McTeigue-directed thriller stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, who joins with a Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a serial killer using Poe’s works as the basis for a string of brutal murders — a pretty cool concept for a movie if executed right. The studio has set a March 9, 2012 release date. Alice Eve and Brendan Gleeson also star.
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Alice Eve is lovely, gorgeous, sexy and beautiful. She’s amazing. That woman is incredible. She’s a very talented but underrated actress. Good for her to keep landing such high profile roles. She deserves it.
John Cusack is an underrated actor and should have joined the A-list years ago. I have been disappointed with the direction that his career has gone in recent years with some of his movies not being released properly or going straight to DVD or him just choosing the wrong projects.
Oh look, John Cusack playing John Cusack pretending to be Edgar Allan Poe.
Does look nice though.
Odd to see Cusack chasing after Johnny Depp and Robert Downey.
He doesn’t have the charm, the on-screen energy to bring a Period character to life.
Although we should all congratulate him in getting another one of his horror movies into release.
It’s actually, funny, how People pick on John Cusack, and like him at the same time.
Great Sherlock Holmes 2 trailer! I miss Jude Law and RDJ, but Cusack is a nice addition to the franchise.
Wait a second…
Tell ya what, I’d take Cusack in SH2 over that untalented bore who goes by the name Noomi Rapace. And exactly who’s brain-dead idea was it to give her more face time than the talented and lovely Rachel McAdams?
The SH2 synopsis lists Noomi as playing a gypsy. I can do a little of my own fortunetelling, Noomi. Come December, I foresee Rooney Mara making everyone forget about your lifeless take on Lisbeth.
You may want to wipe your monitor after spewing those flecks of bile.
Did “Sherlock Holmes” just have a threesome with “Sleepy Hollow” and “Saw”? John Cusack is horrible in period pieces. Just like in the film “Max”, he sticks out like a sore thumb with his all too contemporary mannerisms and accent.
Hey, he was good in Eight Men Out.
He was also very good in Bullets Over Broadway.
Why does this just feel like a B movie?
why does it feel like a B movie? because James McTeigue directed it!
Ya, and V for Vendetta was a student film at best…?
Because Stuart Gordon made this as an episode of masters of horror five years ago.
Very interesting concept; too bad the trailer is over-wrought, ham-fisted and excessively dramatic. It feels like it has been edited for the MTV generation, with ridiculous jump-shots, sped-up editing….studio would be wise to issue a new trailer for this film…something a bit slower and with less plot details given away.
Sheesh….the thing looks interesting. Why does the studio feel the need to ruin it with an awful trailer?
The MTV generation? Perhaps you’ve been in suspended animation since the late 80′s. MTV no longer means what you seem to think it means. Unless you mean to imply that this trailer is cut with the same visual techniques as a teen pregnancy reality show.
Most of you have not (or will) excel because of your incessant negativity. This will work.
I agree. looks good to me
Or maybe we will excel because we do not want to spend our money on garbage.
How about an adaptation of The Raven or a genuine approach to some of Poe’s work instead of yet another roller coaster cash-in?
I totally agree…Looks good to me. Interesting material.
i see some Cusack cossacks commenting above.
Cusack has made a lot of great films and continues to.
I am more inclined to see a film with him in it than I would go see a film with almost any other lead
I verry like it.
Cusack hasn’t been watchable since High Fidelity – before that, The Grifters. Thats two good turns in over 2 decades. This guy is done, plain and simple.
Looks like too much of a Sherlock Holmes ripoff. Cusack is an interesting actor, but there’s not much that’s distinctive about him as Poe from what I can glean here. Poe has a very distinctive persona as a tragic, alcoholic genius. Why not use that to make the role more distinctive?
In 3 or 4 months after Sherlock Holmes I just might be ready for another period crime piece. I look forward to it. They can be fun.
Cusack reads contemporary and feels out of place in this period thriller.
The idea that someone is framing Poe for murders inspired by his writing is not a great idea. Doesn’t anyone watch CSINCISUVUnforgettableetc. etc. where murder based on the writers work happens at least once a season?
Pass
I think this will be great.
Until the killer makes the fatal mistake of committing a crime from a story Poe hasn’t published yet. It’s his editor! (dramatic music and push in on Cusack’s face).
I don’t know if this will work or not. Cusack doesn’t look anything like Poe in his final days, meaning where is the sickly, gaunt Poe? We get Cusack with a mustache, as opposed to say Christian Bale in The Fighter. This does look like a derivative of Sherlock Holmes, though lacking the humor.
And “Nevermore” would have been the better title.
Let’s see what happens. Could be a matinee.
Robert Downey Jr. got here first – Cusack might as well be blasting Peter Gabriel in this damn thing.
Those digital superzooms are outdated and irritating, even if they are only used in trailers. And they’re especially irritating in this lame, calculated attempt to rip off the movies mentioned above. This is POE! Create a mood! Go SLOW! Outdo the movies influencing you! Is this a good movie? Maybe, but the trailer doesn’t want me to think so.
The movie does look good and interesting, despite the trailer. The music was so over the top that I expected Captain Jack Sparrow to jump in at any moment.
I agree with you that it would look and feel a lot better if it was slower, more methodical and ominous. More Silence of the Lambs and less Pirates of the Caribbean.
That being said, I think the movie is still worth a shot.
you haters will be eating your words when this pic does a $9 million weekend and breaks the lower half of the top ten
Love it!!!
Fanned!
Marry me!
This looks good.
Although I have to say it looks like John Cusack was “inserted” into a Johnny Depp film…
John Cusack: I have nothing against you… but you’re no Jeffrey Coombs.
When you’re playing one of the most RECOGNISABLE writers in literary history, would it KILL you to at least TRY and look like him?
I suspect the movie will be better than the generic “let’s show everything” trailer. I also think it’s a mistake to not have Brendan Gleeson in there at all. I haven’t seen it or read the script but his omission kind of gives it away.
good call on the ‘castle’ reference.
it is the castle pilot.
Just from the trailer I’m putting money on the detective being the murderer/fanboy.
Did it write itself? The director and stars are mentioned. Relativity is mentioned. Someone created the story and wrote the dialogue. Nice if they could be mentioned.
Not only wrote it, conceived it and long before Sherlock Holmes movies and Castle. You really think they turned a TV concept into a movie about Poe?
Agreed. There was Batman/Poe comic years and years ago. There have been a few different horror stories over the last three decades with Poe and his stories/real life crimes, Poe the graphic novel came out last year with a similar theme… and there are a ton of these plots without Poe, I even think there was a Murder She Wrote with a killer imitating her work… I could go on forever.
Looks fun, but I agree, this role screams for Johnny Depp. Too bad he already played it in From Hell. The film hangs on Cusack and the last Cusack film I liked was Gross Pointe Blank. Ouch.