Intrepid Pictures start shooting The Raven

Funny looking chap, isn't he, Poe?

John Cusack will star as Edgar Allan Poe in a film named after the most famous of the writer's work, The Raven (published in 1845), shooting on which began this week in Hungary.

According to a John Cusack fan page at Opera.com, The Raven "is based on a Hannah Shakespeare/Ben Livingston script set in the last five days of Poe's life, when a serial killer is running around Baltimore using Poe's stories as the backdrops to his killings. Poe and a young detective have a ticking clock to outsmart the killer before he kills again."


Interesting concept. Will Cusack's barnet be as snazzy? Let's hope so.


Read the full original poem here:


The Raven


Or, you can hear it read by Darth Vader (AKA James Earl Jones)...