THE RAVEN Getting Even More SE7EN-ish

It was announced back in early August that NINJA ASSASSIN director James McTeigue was setting his sites next on a film based on Edgar Allen Poe’s THE RAVEN.  Not a literal adaptation of Poe’s story, the film would take elements from all of Poe’s work and patch-work a film resembling SE7EN.

Today, courtesy of Coming Soon/Shock Till You Drop, comes even more plot details.  They had a chance to sit down with McTeigue who is well into development on this project.

There’s basically a serial killer loose in 1850’s Baltimore and he’s using Poe’s stories as his methodology, so then he leaves clues at each murder and says it’s up to Poe to find him before he kills (again).

There’s a European sensibility that could be cool. You could totally get into world creation where I can say, ‘This is my version of 1850’s Baltimore,’ because the Poe film is a fictionalized account, his last five days. It’s not real.

McTeigue is currently in Europe scouting locations for THE RAVEN.  Expect filming to commence sometime early next year.  NINJA ASSASSIN hits theaters on November 25th.