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Plot summary
It is 1848 in Baltimore, and Edgar Allan Poe, who has a drinking problem and no money, writes reviews for the Baltimore Patriot. Emily Hamilton loves him, but Captain Charles Hamilton, her father, despises him. A woman and her twelve-year-old daughter are found dead in a room locked from the inside. Emmett Fields, the detective assigned to the case, discovers a spring hidden in a window that had been nailed shut and remembers a story Poe wrote about a murder in a locked room. When Griswold, a critic of his work, is killed in a way that copies another of Poe's stories, Poe and Fields grasp that the murders follow Poe's tales.
Cast
- Aidan Feoreas Stage Manager
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Raven (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's fictional plot was built on a real, unresolved detail of Edgar Allan Poe's death: witnesses said Poe repeatedly called out the name "Reynolds" on his final night, though no one has ever established who he meant.
- Jeremy Renner was originally going to star in the role later taken by Luke Evans, but dropped out to make Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol; Ewan McGregor was in talks and Joaquin Phoenix was approached before John Cusack was confirmed as Edgar Allan Poe.
