The Matrix, check – V for Vendetta, check – Ninja Assassin, check – Superman, possibly, A little POE to round out the ole resume, CHECK! Director James McTeigue, revealed some interesting info on his next project, a period thriller called “The Raven”, inspired by the life and mysterious death of the great Edgar Allan Poe. The story puts the author in the hunt for a serial killer whose crimes mirror the events of Poe’s gothic stories.

In describing his take on the Poe classic, McTeigue said,

“It’s like the poem, The Raven, itself, crossed with ‘Se7en’. It should be pretty cool. The script is really good and everyone responds to it really well. I’m in the middle of casting. The plot won’t be a literal interpretation of the short story.”

“There’s basically a serial killer loose in 1850’s Baltimore and he’s using Poe’s stories as his methodology, so then he leaves clues at each murder and says it’s up to Poe to find him before he kills (again).”

Production should start sometime next year, and the director has been scouting Europe for some fitting locations.

“There’s a European sensibility that could be cool. You could totally get into world creation where I can say, This is my version of 1850’s Baltimore, because the Poe film is a fictionalized account, his last five days. It’s not real.”

 

[Source] STYD