Director James McTeigue talks The Raven

TF obtained an earlier screening from the trailer for that Raven at Comic-Disadvantage captured and today Edgar Allan Poe fans can easily see it on the internet. Hot around the heels of this trailer, director James McTeigue has additionally whipped the horses and began the press bandwagon moving correctly.The film is referred to like a gritty thriller, by which Poe (John Cusack) joins forces having a youthful Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to search lower a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works because the grounds for a string of brutal killings.Sounds nasty and McTeigue states he will not be tugging any punches. Requested if he'll be shying from an R rating he told Fangoria, "No, uh-uh.""I am not attempting to contend with Saw Saw is extremely particular and we are more within the mental suspense-thriller mode as opposed to a straight-out horror film," he stated before adding, "The tone is a lot more like a movie like Se7en, this is where it falls."Poe was an alcoholic along with a drug user and McTeigue states the film does not be put off by that. Just how did John Cusack enter that mindset?"He dropped a few pounds to provide themself the attracted kind of Poe look, he increased a goatee and died his hair just a little blacker of computer usually is, to actually enter Poe's physical space," McTeigue discloses."After which, John always spoken about how exactly he was friendly with Hunter S. Thompson and that he often see parallels between Hunter and Poe, and i believe that assisted inform the smoothness for John."The Raven also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen and opens in 2012.