Director James McTeigue talks The Raven

TF acquired an early on screening in the trailer for your Raven at Comic-Disadvantage taken now Edgar Allan Poe fans are able to see it on the web. Hot round the heels of the trailer, director James McTeigue has furthermore whipped the horses and started the press bandwagon moving properly.The film is known to love a gritty thriller, through which Poe (John Cusack) joins forces getting a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to look lower a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own is guaranteed as the causes for any string of brutal killings.Sounds nasty and McTeigue states he won't be yanking any punches. Asked for if he'll be shying from an R rating he told Fangoria, "No, uh-uh.""I'm not trying to deal with Saw Saw is very particular and that we tend to be more inside the mental suspense-thriller mode instead of a straight-out horror film," he mentioned before adding, "A dark tone is a lot more like a film like Se7en, this is when it falls."Poe was an alcoholic together with a drug user and McTeigue states the film doesn't shy away from that. Precisely how did John Cusack enter that mindset?"He dropped a couple of pounds to supply themselves the attracted type of Poe look, he elevated a goatee and died his hair somewhat blacker laptop or computer usually is, to really enter Poe's physical space," McTeigue unveils."After which it, John always spoken about how precisely he was friendly with Hunter S. Thompson which he frequently see parallels between Hunter and Poe, but that aided inform the level of smoothness for John."The Raven also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen and opens in 2012.