Using everyone’s favorite 140-characters or less medium, John Cusack announced that he will be playing Edgar Allan Poe in a cinematic adaptation of The Raven: “officiali- will play edgar allen poe in fall-a-film called the raven, send any poe- gold – my way as i begin this journey into the abyss (4:06 AM Aug 27th via TweetDeck).” (Also, because John Cusack tweets from his iPhone where his spelling is fast and loose, with no spellcheck, if you don’t like spelling errors, he will block u–paraphrased from his Twitter page, which you may read at your own risk).
An article in today Entertainment Weekly, focusing on a round-up of this weekend’s non-Emmy news, linked to this article which describes The Raven project in more detail. The article also mentions, interestingly, that before John Cusack was selected to play Poe, Joaquin Phoenix and Ewan McGregor were in negotiations to play Poe, and Budapest is going to be Baltimore in 1849. Jeremy Renner (from The Hurt Locker) was supposed to play the detective but he left the project to play second fiddle to Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible reboot.