The Raven (2012)
Director: James McTeigue
Synopsis[]
When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack)'s works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.
Male Deaths[]
- John Cusack [Edgar Allan Poe]
- Oliver Jackson-Cohen [PC John Cantrell]
- Sam Hazeldine [Ivan Reynolds]
- John Warnaby [Ludwig Griswold]
Female Deaths[]
- Jasmina Ilic [Older Tenement Woman]
- Teodora Uveric [Young Tenement Woman]
Gallery[]
Posters[]
Trivia[]
- Edgar Allan Poe only made $9 for his poem "The Raven".
- The first trailer was released on 7 October 2011, 162 years to the day after Poe's mysterious death.
- Sylvester Stallone had tried to set up a rival Poe biopic. He had Robert Downey Jr. lined up to star.
- Joaquin Phoenix was at one point in negotiations to star in the project together with Jeremy Renner. Phoenix would have played Poe to Renner's police inspector Fields, but the deal fell through when Renner decided to do Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011).