About a month ago we were given our first look at John Cusack sporting his very best goatee in a spy image captured from the set of The Raven, the fictionalized story of Edgar Allan Poe’s final days. The image wasn’t official, but showed us that Cusack is pulling the look off. Today, The Huffington Post has gotten their hands on the first official promo image of Poe himself holding his iconic black bird.
Far from giving away anything about what we can expect from the film, the image still manages to be a decent look at Cusack doing something even more “Poe” than just standing in the street. Hopefully we’ll get something a little more substantial sooner rather than later. Have a look below, and scope out the quick synopsis below that.
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
