James McTeigue Reveals Next Project, The Raven

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With the advent of Twitter, casting announcements can come from anywhere, including the stars themselves, which is why it was quite a breakthrough for actor John Cusack to make the official announcement on his Twitter feed that he would be taking on the role of Edgar Allan Poe in James (V For Vendetta) McTeigue's thriller The Raven.

McTeigue for his previous movie Ninja Assassin, and he told us that his movie wouldn't be a straight adaptation of Poe's poem, as much as a serial killer thriller in which the famed horror author would have to solve clues of a string of murders based on his stories. The story would be set in Baltimore during the 1850s

 

[Asgard]

I love me them Cusacks.

 

[Max J Power]

I don't know if I think this premise is a good idea, but Cusack's involvement piques my interest. I think he's a really good actor; not just a likable one.

 

[Pink Ranger]

James McAvoy would have been a good Poe, just based on his look alone, but John Cusack can play anything, so I look forward to this.

 

[Majik1387]

Can we get a good actor and not a lazy one? Thanks.

 

[Figs]

So is this film going to be modernized? I just can't see Cusack in a role like this if it's a period piece.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=327927

 

[Zanham]

Every legendary, historic name is getting a movie about them, or should. I'd like to see a series of modernized movies about the 300-400 names the really stand out amongst history, against all history.

WHO'D YOU PICK TO PLAY THEM?

PHILOSOPHERS
Homer
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Sophocles
Eurripedes
Ghandi
Aldous Huxley
Fredrick Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud

WRITERS/NOVELISTS
Tolkien
Tolstoy
Hawthorne
Steinbeck
Twain
Hemingway
Hugo
Poe
Melville
Thoureau
Salinger
Shelly
Voltaire
Vonnegut

PAINTERS
Picasso
Michaelangelo
Dali
Van Gogh
Raphael
Donatello
Rembrandt

COMPOSERS
Beethoven
Mozart
Thaichovsky
Strauss
Bach
Wagner
Stravinsky
Shubert
Chopin
Handel
Hayden

POETS/PLAYWRIGHTS
Virgil
Shakespeare
Dante
Chaucer
Milton
Keats
Byron
Blake
Emerson
Dickinson
Frost
Ginsburg
Kerouac

MAGICIANS/ILLUSIONISTS
Houdini
Copperfield

EXPLORERS
De Leon
Magellan
Columbus
Polo

COMEDIANS
Chaplin
Fields

STORYTELLERS
Munchausen

SCIENTISTS/MATHEMATICIANS
Einstein
Newton
Dalton
Galileo
Napier
Joule
Hooke
Boyle
Bohr
Darwin
Kepler
Copernicus
Hubble
Descartes
Mendel
Lavoisier
Tesla
Pasteur

INVENTORS
Edison
Bell
Marconi
Hertz
Morse
Whitney
Diesel
Deforest
Fermi
Morse
Ford
Guttenberg

RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Luther
Ghandi
Aquinas
Calvin

MILITARY LEADERS
Bismark
Trotsky
Mussolini
Alexander
Hitler
Marx
Napolean
Levin
Lee
Patton

U.S. PRESIDENTS
Jefferson
Lincoln
Washington
Grant
Kennedy
Roosevelt
Clinton
Obama

KINGS/EMPERORS
Henry VIII
Kublai Khan
Ghengis Khan
Suleyman the Magnificent
Louis XIV
William the Conqueror
Elizabeth I
Peter the Great
Catherine de Medci

FILMMAKERS
Welles
Melies
Eastman

No one is doing anything new anymore anyways. May as well dig up ALL THE OLD RELICS and see what happens.

 

[Anubis]

People don't want new.

Also, I hope he grows an awesome stache for the film.

 

[Zanham]

People don't want new.

Also, I hope he grows an awesome stache for the film.

And those names aren't.

We can see who really knows about history, children.

 

[Anubis]

.....What?

 

[Zanham]

.....What?

LOLOLOLOL!!!

Seriously though, what is your take on history? I'm sure it's a hoot.

 

[dude stannis]

People don't want new.

Also, I hope he grows an awesome stache for the film.

Old or new shouldn't matter. Good is what should matter.

V For Vendetta is one of my favourites. I told myself I would watch anything James McTeigue makes. Then I heard Ninja Assassin was freakin' terrible and I'm afraid to watch it.

 

[Zanham]

Old or new shouldn't matter. Good is what should matter.

V For Vendetta is one of my favourites. I told myself I would watch anything James McTeigue makes. Then I heard Ninja Assassin was freakin' terrible and I'm afraid to watch it.

No one, and I really mean NO-ONE, knows the truth to history or any other thing. We really don't honestly know what is 'good.' But doing some freelance research on the biggest names that are in everyones faces and sitting on it for a few years is probably a good place to start to learning the truth about what 'good' is.
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By the way, I do think this movie will be good - for what the 'good' label is worth.

 

[Anubis]

LOLOLOLOL!!!

Seriously though, what is your take on history? I'm sure it's a hoot.

I'm just saying Captain Pretentious, the General Public don't want new. They want Scream 4. They want a remake, of a remake, of a tv show, that was based on a book, so I guess your list of dead guys(and two still living guys) would work. Cuz you know, been there, done that.

 

[Ghostvirus]

The story behind the creation of the Raven is much more interesting than a simple murder mystery. Why in the hell change it up like that?

 

[Zanham]

I'm just saying Captain Pretentious, the General Public don't want new. They want Scream 4. They want a remake, of a remake, of a tv show, that was based on a book, so I guess your list of dead guys(and two still living guys) would work. Cuz you know, been there, done that.

There are people who actually wanted Scream 4!?! How many brain cells do they have left?

 

[Anubis]

Enough to hold down a job, to earn the money, to spend it on the likes of Scream 4, Vampires Suck, and [Insert S**ty Movie].

 

[Zanham]

Enough to hold down a job, to earn the money, to spend it on the likes of Scream 4, Vampires Suck, and [Insert S**ty Movie].

It doesn't take many brain cells to play with money ya' know.

Sh**ty Movie? Is that yet another franchise?

 

[Anubis]

No, I suppose it doesn't.

 

[Zanham]

No, I suppose it doesn't.

We could probably come up with the screenplay for Sh**ty Movie in about 45 minutes right now.

Actually, I don't think we'd even need a script. Just lots and lots of money.

 

[dude stannis]

No one, and I really mean NO-ONE, knows the truth to history or any other thing. We really don't honestly know what is 'good.' But doing some freelance research on the biggest names that are in everyones faces and sitting on it for a few years is probably a good place to start to learning the truth about what 'good' is.
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By the way, I do think this movie will be good - for what the 'good' label is worth.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I don't mean to be patronising, but you're going to have to dumb it down for me.

I define 'good' as making a good film. If it does a good job with what it wants to accomplish then it's a good film.

 

[Zanham]

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I don't mean to be patronising, but you're going to have to dumb it down for me.

I define 'good' as making a good film. If it does a good job with what it wants to accomplish then it's a good film.

I don't hold it against you, it's not your fault - much.

good = making a good a film

Does that make sense in the broad, grown up version of the truth?

Regardless, if a film actually has a purpose(be it awards or money or viewer praise) and actually accomplishes it - yeah, that's probably a 'good' movie. Most people would take the viewer praise over the other two and that is why that is probably the hardest group to aim for. My advice - people want the truth, show the most truth and you'll appease the trifecta of movie judgement(money-awards-viewer praise) and then some. Just ask yourself one question before undertaking that task - are you sure you know the truth? Or are you just going to make another sh**ty movie?

 

[Ghostvirus]

Alright, lets start placeing bets on how long Zanham lasts before getting banned?

 

[Anubis]

I don't hold it against you, it's not your fault - much.

...You own an Ascot don't you?