We’ve seen a handful of behind-the-scenes shots of John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue’s fictionalized tale of the author’s sleuthing ways, but Entertainment Weekly has just come out with the first official still from the film, which is going by the name “Untitled Raven Project”.
As we told you earlier today, the Relativity film will be a presence at this July’s San Diego Comic Con; fans will get their first look at footage from the film there. It comes out in theaters in MARCH of 2012.
The official synopsis: 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 (John Cusack). 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.
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