John Cusack To Star In James Mcteigue's 'the Raven,' John Cusack Confirms

Adam Rosenberg, MTV Movies Blog
Fri, 08/27/2010 - 12:21pm

He may be the posterboy for 1980s lovey dovey comedies, but John Cusack also does tall, dark and stormy quite well. It's fitting then that he'll star as horror author Edgar Allen Poe in James McTeigue's upcoming murder mystery/Poe not-biopic "The Raven." News of the casting comes from Cusack himself, via his Twitter feed. McTeigue told [...]

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