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Opening Nationwide April 27, 2012

Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin)

Starring John Cusack as famed poet EDGAR ALLAN POE (Being John Malkovich, 2012)
Luke Evans as INSPECTOR EMMETT FIELDS (Immortals, The Three Musketeers, soon to be seen in The Hobbit)


Alice Eve as EMILY (Sex and the City 2, soon to be seen in Men In Black III and the Star Trek sequel)
Brendan Gleeson as COLONEL HAMILTON (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, In Bruges, The Guard) & Oliver Jackson-Cohen as CANTRELL (Faster)

In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue, the film also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.

When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper—part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe. But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story.

Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe’s writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author’s help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer’s next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it’s too late.

Written by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare, Produced by Trevor Macy, Marc D. Evans and Aaron Ryder, Executive Produced by Jesus Martinez Asencio, Glen Basner and James D. Stern